The Known
Body Count of American Military,
CIA, and Diplomatic Personnel killed While Off-duty.
June 10, 1970-
Army MAJ Robert Perry- killed in Amman, Jordan
July 31, 1970- USAID Adviser Dan Mitrione kidnapped and murdered in
Montevideo, Uruguay
March 2, 1973-US Ambassadors Cleo Noel JR, and George Moore assassinated
At Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan
April 13, 1974- CMDR Leland Dobler, LT Charles Jeffries, and CAPT TJ
Mtichell found murdered in Subic Bay, Philippines
April 13, 1974- CN Patrick Brown, electrocuted to death in Okinawa, Japan
January 27, 1975-Alex Berger,
Frank Connor, Jim Gezork, Harold Sherburne
Killed in bombing of Fraunces Tavern in New York City
May 21, 1975-Air Force Personnel-COL Paul Shaffer and LTC Jack Turner
Shot and killed in Tehran, Iran
December 23, 1975-CIA Officer Richard Welch shot and killed in Athens,
Greece
August 18, 1976-Army Personnel-MAJ Arthur Bonifas and LT Mark Barrett
Hacked to death in North Korea
November 21, 1979-CW3 Bryan Ellis (ARMY) and CPL Steven Crawley (Marines)
Killed in assault on US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan
December 3, 1979- US Navy Sailors CTO1 John Ball and RM3 Emil White
Killed in ambush on Navy bus in San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 16, 1980- BMCM Sam Novello shot and killed in Istanbul, Turkey
November 15, 1980- Air Force SGT William Herrington shot and killed on
Adana, Turkey
January 18, 1982- Army LTC Charles Ray shot and killed in Paris, France
September 30, 1982- Marine
CPL David Reagan killed by a bomb at Beirut
Airport in Beirut, Lebanon
April 18, 1983- 17 people including one Marine and three Army personnel
Killed in bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon
May 25, 1983- LT CMDR Albert Schaufelberger assassinated in San Salvador,
El Salvador
October 16, 1983- Marine CPT Michael Ohler shot by a sniper in Beirut,
Lebanon
October 23, 1983- 219 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 4 Army Soldiers killed
in
Bombing of Marine Barracks in Bierut, Lebanon
November 15, 1983 - Navy Capt George Tsantes shot and killed in Athens,
Greece
January 8, 1984- Marine CPL Edward Gargano killed in ambush in Beirut,
Lebanon
March 16, 1984- Political Officer William Buckley kidnapped and murdered
In Beirut, Lebanon
September 20, 1984 - Army WO2 Kenneth Welch and Navy Intelligence
Specialist Michael Wagner were killed in a bombing of US Embassy Annex
in
Aukar, Lebanon
February 7 1985- DEA Agent Enrique Salazar tortured and killed in
Guadalajara, Mexico
March 24, 1985- Army MAJ Arthur Nicholson JR was shot and killed in
Ludwigslust, East Germany
June 14, 1985- Navy Diver CB2 (DV) Robert Stethem executed on TWA Flight
847 in Beirut, Lebanon
June 19, 1985- Marines SGT Bobby Dickson, SGT Thomas Handwork, CPL
Patrick Kwiatkowski and CPL Gregory Weber killed in bombing of a Chili's
Restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador
August 8, 1985- AM1 Frank Scorton (Air Force), SP4 Edward Pimental (Army)
And Becky Jo Bristol killed in car bombing on Rhein-Main Air Base in West
Germany
April 5, 1986 - SGT Kenneth
Ford and SGT James Goins killed in bombing of
A discotheque in West Berlin, West Germany
March 31, 1987- Army SFC Gregory Fronius killed in El Salvador
October 28, 1987- Air Force SGT Randy Davis, AM1 Steven Faust, and
Herculano Mangente (RET USAF) shot and killed outisde Clark Air Force
Base in Philippines
December 26, 1987- GSM3 Ronald Strong killed in bombing of USO Club in
Barcelona, Spain
February 17, 1988- Marine LTCOL Rich Higgins kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon
(Declared dead in July 1990)
June 28, 1988- Navy CAPT William Nordeen killed by a car bomb in
Kifissia, Greece
December 21, 1988- 198 Americans killed in bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
December 21, 1988- 193 Americans
from flight 103
April 21, 1989- Army COL James Rowe assassinated in Manila, Philippines
September 26, 1989- Ford Aerospace
Technicians Donald Buchner (RET USAF)
And William Thompson (RET USAF) murdered outside Clark Air Base,
Philippines
May 13, 1990- AM John Raven and AM John Green found murdered outside of
Clark Air Base, Philippines
March 12, 1991- Air Force SGT Ronald Stewart killed by a bomb in Athens,
Greece
January 25, 1993- Lansing Bennett and Frank Darling killed outside CIA
Headquarters in Langley, Virginia
February 26, 1993- 6 died in bombing of World Trade Center in New York
City
March 8, 1995- Consulate Secretary Jackie VanLandingham and CIA
Communications Technician Gary Durell killed in Karachi, Pakistan
April 19, 1995- 168 people die in bombing of Murrow Building in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma
April 19, 1995- 53 people from
OKC Bombing
November 13, 1995- 5 people killed in car bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
June 25, 1996- 19 people killed in bombing of Khobar Towersin Dharan,
Saudi Arabia
July 27, 1996- Alice Hawthorne killed in a bomb explosion at the 1996
Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia
November 27, 1997- Ephraim Egbu, Joel Enlow, William Jennings and Tracy
Ritchie shot and killed in Karachi, Pakistan
August 7, 1998 - 12 Americans died in bombing of US Embassy in Nairobi,
Kenya
October 12, 2000- 17 sailors die in the bombing of the USS Cole in Aden,
Yemen
January 30, 2001- Ronald Sander killed in Sucumbios Province, Ecuador
September 11, 2001- Pentagon
- 125 People (22 Army, 33 Navy, 70
Civilian)
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