Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Andrew Liggett, age 24, from Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Sunday, October 30, 1983
Death details: One of three American soldiers from a multi-national force patrolling the Sinai Peninsula who were killed when their truck crashed into a tree near the northwestern Sinai town of El Arish.
Source: Detroit Free Press (1983), Poughkeepsie Journal (1983)
Leon Banning, age 20, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Sunday, October 30, 1983
Death details: One of three American soldiers from a multi-national force patrolling the Sinai Peninsula who were killed when their truck crashed into a tree near the northwestern Sinai town of El Arish.
Source: Detroit Free Press (1983), Poughkeepsie Journal (1983)
Brian K. Merritt, age 33, from Spring Lake, North Carolina, Cumberland county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Sunday, October 30, 1983
Death details: One of three American soldiers from a multi-national force patrolling the Sinai Peninsula who were killed when their truck crashed into a tree near the northwestern Sinai town of El Arish.
Source: Detroit Free Press (1983), Poughkeepsie Journal (1983)