Latham, William Travis
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Verified At 29, SSG Latham, William Travis of KINGMAN, AZ was serving with the ARMY, TROOP E 2ND SQUADRON 3RD ARMOR CAVALRY REGIMENT, FORT CARSON, CO 80913, when he died in WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES on June 18, 2003. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From KINGMAN, AZ, SSG Latham, William Travis, serving with TROOP E 2ND SQUADRON 3RD ARMOR CAVALRY REGIMENT, FORT CARSON, CO 80913, was 29 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
On June 18, 2003, the ARMY lost SSG Latham, William Travis in WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES. He was 29. 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
Latham, William Travis 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.
