Hart, John Daniel
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Verified Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION 508TH INFANTRY, APO AE 09630, PFC Hart, John Daniel of BEDFORD, MA, 20, died in TAZA, IRAQ on October 18, 2003. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From BEDFORD, MA, PFC Hart, John Daniel, serving with COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION 508TH INFANTRY, APO AE 09630, was 20 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
On October 18, 2003, the ARMY lost PFC Hart, John Daniel in TAZA, IRAQ. He was 20. The ARMY recorded the cause as HOSTILE.
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
Hart, John Daniel 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.
