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Casualty Info
Home Town Preston, Kemper County, Mississippi
Casualty Date Nov 18, 2001
Cause Non Hostile- Body Not Recovered
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location Persian Gulf
Conflict Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
OEF - Afghanistan/Liberation of Afghanistan (2001)
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October / 2001
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November / 2001
Description On October 7, 2001 with the beginning of punishing aerial bombardments, missile attacks and special forces commando missions against the Taliban and bin Laden's forces by the United States and the United Kingdom (the Allies). An informal alliance between the Northern Alliance and the Allies developed, with coordination between Allied air attacks and ground attacks by the Northern Alliance.
These attacks led to the fall of Kabul on Nov. 13, 2001, as the Taliban retreated from most of northern Afghanistan.
By November 25, 2001, the last Taliban/Al-Qaida stronghold in the north, Konduz, had fallen to the Northern Alliance. American and British special forces, numbering only in the hundreds, are on the ground in Afghanistan to liaison with the Northern Alliance as well as to conduct raids, ambushes and reconnaissance in order to destroy the Taliban and Al-Qaida forces.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
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September / 2001
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November / 2001
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories Navy Engineman 1st Class Vincent Parker, 38.
Navy, USS Peterson, Norfolk Naval Station, Va.
Preston, Mississippi
November 18, 2001 in Operation Enduring Freedom. Drowned in the Persian Gulf when the ship they had boarded, which had been smuggling Iraqi oil, sank.
