Spc Ryan Travis Baker
Born: December 20, 1978
Died: November 15, 2003 in Mosul, Iraq
Spc. Ryan T. Baker 24, of Brown Mills, N.J.; assigned to the 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; killed Nov. 15 when two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul, Iraq. He died when a pair of Black Hawk helicopters collided in mid-air over a residential suburb. It appears that one of the aircraft was hit on the tail wing by a rocket-propelled grenade. Ryan was in the JROTC program at Pemberton Township High School in New Jersey and joined the Army upon graduating in 1997. After basic training, he was selected to become a Screaming Eagle in the 101st Airborne Div.
Burial is at Brig Gen William C Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown, New Jersey – Sec 01 Site 1566
The Spc Ryan Travis Baker by Freedom Remembered, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
