
OSHKOSH, Wis. — A Navy reservist who formerly lived in Oshkosh was among five sailors killed in a mortar attack in Iraq, his mother said.
The Defense Department said Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Anderson, 36, was among those killed May 2 in Anbar province as a result of hostile fire. They were assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14, based in Jacksonville, Fla.
Sylvia Anderson of Oshkosh, Anderson’s mother, said she was told the five died and 38 were wounded when their encampment about 25 miles west of Fallujah was hit by mortar fire.
She said her son, who lived in Daytona Beach, Fla., worked in the Seabees, a Navy construction force, and had been...