Kanakaole, Eugene Dante Makanani
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Verified PV2 Kanakaole, Eugene Dante Makanani, 19, a native of MAUI, HI, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, 87TH ENGINEER COMPANY, 8TH ENG BN, 36TH ENG BDE, FORT HOOD, TX, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on June 11, 2008.
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Kanakaole, Eugene Dante Makanani of MAUI, HI, 19 years old, served in the ARMY with 87TH ENGINEER COMPANY, 8TH ENG BN, 36TH ENG BDE, FORT HOOD, TX at the rank of PV2 ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On June 11, 2008, he died in BALAD, IRAQ. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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.
Source: Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS). Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom. Date of death: June 11, 2008. Hometown: MAUI, HI.
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Kanakaole, Eugene Dante Makanani 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.
