Newsome, Daniel Allen
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Verified From CHICOPEE, MA, SSG Newsome, Daniel Allen served with the ARMY, TROOP A, 1ST SQUADRON, 8TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TX, and died on June 27, 2007 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 27. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Newsome, Daniel Allen of CHICOPEE, MA, 27 years old, served in the ARMY with TROOP A, 1ST SQUADRON, 8TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TX at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On June 27, 2007, the ARMY lost SSG Newsome, Daniel Allen in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 27. 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
Newsome, Daniel Allen 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.
