Dima, Catalin Dan
DET 2, 411TH ENGINEER BRIGADE, NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553, ARMY ? SGT Dima, Catalin Dan (WHITE LAKE, NY), age 36, ? died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on November 13, 2004. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SGT Dima, Catalin Dan, from WHITE LAKE, NY, at age 36, with DET 2, 411TH ENGINEER BRIGADE, NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
Killed on November 13, 2004 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Dima, Catalin Dan was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The ARMY classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Dima, Catalin Dan was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.