Timothy M. Gibson
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Age: 23
From: Hillsborough, N.H.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Incident: Marine Cpl. Timothy M. Gibson was killed Jan. 26 when the CH-53E helicopter in which he was riding crashed near Rutbah, Iraq. Twenty-nine Marines and one sailor also were
Died: January 26, 2005
N.H. Marine killed in Iraq chopper crash
By Beverley Wang
Associated Press
MERRIMACK, N.H. — A Marine from Merrimack was among 31 U.S. servicemen killed in a helicopter crash during a sandstorm in Iraq.
Family members said Cpl. Timothy Gibson, 23, was on the transport helicopter when it crashed in western Iraq, killing 30 Marines and one Navy medic in the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the war began.
The death toll was the largest for a U.S. aircraft crash in Iraq since U.S. forces invaded in March 2003. Like most of the crash victims, Gibson had been deployed from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
The helicopter went down about 1:20 a.m. Wednesday, about 220 miles west of Baghdad, according to a military statement. The Pentagon said it would not release information about the victims until all families had been notified.
Gibson is the seventh New Hampshire soldier killed during the...
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