Posted at 4:18 p.m., Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Kane'ohe Marine killed in Iraq
Advertiser Staff
A Marine with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Kane'ohe Bay was killed in Iraq on Sunday.The Pentagon said Lance Cpl. Jeffery S. Blanton, 23, of Fayetteville, Ga., died as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province.
His family said he was killed in Fallujah while searching house-to-house for insurgents and weapons. Blanton enlisted in the Marine Corps in March of 2002 and in November was assigned to the 1/3 Marines.
Eight U.S. Marines were killed in violence in Anbar province on Sunday, a day after American warplanes pounded Fallujah with missiles as insurgents battled coalition forces in the city.
The deaths equaled the highest number of Marines killed in a single day since a car bomb killed eight 1/3 Marines outside Fallujah on Oct. 30, which was the deadliest attack against the U.S. military in nearly six months.
Yesterday, Marine Lance Cpl. Blake A. Magaoay, 20, of Pearl City, was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific after he was killed Nov. 29 in Fallujah. Magaoay was with the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion out of Camp Pendleton, Calif.
