Domingo Arroyo Jr. Military person

Private First Class Domingo Arroyo, Jr. (March 7, 1971 – January 13, 1993), a United States Marine, was the first Puerto Rican and American serviceman to be killed in Operation Restore Hope during the Somalian Civil War.

Personal facts

Domingo Arroyo Jr.
Birth dateMarch 07, 1971
Birth place
Bayamón Puerto Rico
Date of deathJanuary 13, 1993
Place of death
Somalia , Mogadishu
Resting place
Bayamón Puerto Rico , Puerto Rico National Cemetery

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Military person

allegianceUnited States of America
award
Purple Heart
military operations
Somali Civil War
Gulf War
military branch
United States Marine Corps
military unit
11th Marine Regiment (United States)
1st Marine Division (United States)
3rd Battalion 11th Marines
service start1989
service end1993

Domingo Arroyo Jr. on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDE103CF93AA25752C0A965958260
  2. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r103:S17FE3-94:
  3. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/marine_corps/index.html?query=SOMALIA&field=geo&match=exact
  4. http://www.aiipowmia.com/other/somalia.html
  5. http://www.hackworth.com/7mar95.html
  6. http://www.rootsweb.com/~prsanjua/mil-003.htm