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US helicopter shot down in Iraq

Falluja, Iraq - 16 killed, 20 injured

A US helicopter was shot down yesterday by a missile killing 16 American soldiers and injuring 20. The aircraft, a twin-engine CH-47 "Chinook", was attacked south of Falluja. The soldiers were on their way for two weeks of vacation. On the same day another American soldier was killed in a vehicle on a road to Baghdad by a makeshift bomb and two US civilian contractors were killed by a roadside bomb...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 54426
Rome, Italy, 11/03/2003 11:24
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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