Name:
Iowa Army National Guard Sgt. Paul F. Fisher
Age:
39
From:
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Assigned to
Detachment 1, Company F, 106th Aviation Battalion, Army National Guard, based in Davenport, Iowa
Incident:
Iowa Army National Guard Sgt. Paul F. Fisher died Nov. 6 at the Homburg University Klinikum, Homberg, Germany. Fisher was very seriously injured Nov. 2 when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter in which he was riding went down in Fallujah, Iraq.
Died:
November
06, 2003
Iowa soldier killed in Iraq had unflappable spirit
Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Army Sgt. Paul Fisher was remembered in a Nov. 15 memorial service at his local union hall as a devoted soldier and husband, but most of all as someone with a gift for making people feel at ease.
Fisher, 39, was a flight engineer aboard a Chinook helicopter shot down Nov. 2 by a surface-to-air missile near Fallujah, Iraq. He was flown to Germany with broken bones and a head injury and died Nov. 6 in a hospital in Hamburg, Germany.
Fisher, an electrician for ESCO Electric, had an unflappable spirit and a smile that almost magically calmed everyone around him, said the Rev. David Dryland, of Bethany Congregational Church in Cedar...
Occupation
Detachment 1, Company F, 106th Aviation Battalion, Army National Guard, based in Davenport, Iowa
Incident
Iowa Army National Guard Sgt. Paul F. Fisher died Nov. 6 at the Homburg University Klinikum, Homberg, Germany. Fisher was very seriously injured Nov. 2 when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter in which he was riding went down in Fallujah, Iraq.