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Northern Iowa native among U.S. soldiers killed in Afghan ‘copter crash

August 7, 2011 By Radio Iowa Contributor

A soldier from northern Iowa  is among the 30 American troops killed late Friday when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. 

Thirty-five-year-old Jon Tumilson of Rockford was killed late Friday when a helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. A U.S. Navy spokesperson confirmed the death on Saturday.

Tumilson was a 1995 graduate of Rockford High School and was among 29 other troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALS unit that killed al-Quaida leader Osama bin Laden.

It was the deadliest single incident for American forces since the Afgan war began.

(Reporting by Chris Berg, KCHA, Charles City)

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