Finken, Paul John
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Verified At 40, LTC Finken, Paul John of EARLING, IA was serving with the ARMY, HHC, 4TH BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY, when he died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on November 2, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
LTC Finken, Paul John, 40 years old, grew up in EARLING, IA and served as Active Duty in the ARMY with HHC, 4TH BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Killed on November 2, 2006 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Finken, Paul John 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.
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Finken, Paul John 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.
