John Lukac
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Age: 19
From: Las Vegas
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Incident: Marine Pfc. John Lukac was killed Oct. 30 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: October 30, 2004
Nevadan killed in Iraq car bombing
Associated Press
HONOLULU — A Nevadan was among eight Hawaii-based Marines killed over the weekend by enemy action in Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday.
Pfc. John Lukac, 19, of Las Vegas, was among the nine killed and eight other Marines wounded Saturday when a car bomb went off next to a truck outside Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province. It was the deadliest attack against the American military in nearly six months.
The deaths came as U.S. forces are gearing up for a major assault on Fallujah, seen as the toughest bastion of Sunni Muslim guerrillas, ahead of crucial elections due by Jan. 31.
Lukac was the sixth soldier with ties to Nevada killed in Iraq or Kuwait since Operation Iraqi Freedom began in 2003. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., issued a statement Monday night upon learning of his death.
“My heart goes out to John Lukac’s parents and his entire family. I can’t imagine the...