SPC Spencer Karol

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SPC Spencer Karol

Birth
Death
6 Oct 2003 (aged 20)
Iraq
Burial
Cathedral City, Riverside County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 33.8155824, Longitude: -116.4410255
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of Spc. Spencer T. Karol, 20, of Woodruff, Ariz., who was killed on Oct. 6 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Karol was on a mission to observe enemy activity when a command detonated device exploded. His vehicle was overturned from the force of the explosion and he was fatally injured.

Karol was assigned to the 165th Military Intelligence, V Corps, Darmstadt, Germany.

He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

[See also Find A Grave Memorial# 13143452. Unknown which tomb actually contains remains.]
The Department of Defense announced today the death of Spc. Spencer T. Karol, 20, of Woodruff, Ariz., who was killed on Oct. 6 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Karol was on a mission to observe enemy activity when a command detonated device exploded. His vehicle was overturned from the force of the explosion and he was fatally injured.

Karol was assigned to the 165th Military Intelligence, V Corps, Darmstadt, Germany.

He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

[See also Find A Grave Memorial# 13143452. Unknown which tomb actually contains remains.]

  • Created by: Wes Keat
  • Added: May 12, 2015
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146397057/spencer-karol: accessed ), memorial page for SPC Spencer Karol (13 Apr 1983–6 Oct 2003), Find a Grave Memorial ID 146397057, citing Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, Riverside County, California, USA; Maintained by Wes Keat (contributor 31983254).