Oberleitner, Branden Frederick
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Verified In AL FALLUJAH, IRAQ on June 5, 2003, the ARMY lost PFC Oberleitner, Branden Frederick of WORTHINGTON, OH, 20, serving with COMPANY B 2ND BATTALION 502ND INFANTRY, FORT CAMPBELL, KY 42223. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Oberleitner, Branden Frederick of WORTHINGTON, OH, 20 years old, served in the ARMY with COMPANY B 2ND BATTALION 502ND INFANTRY, FORT CAMPBELL, KY 42223 at the rank of PFC ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
June 5, 2003 ? Oberleitner, Branden Frederick died in AL FALLUJAH, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2003.
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
Oberleitner, Branden Frederick 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.
