10-079 Garand Picture of the Day - more panama

[Mark in Rochester]

Two besieged Amer. soldiers wearing gas masks are engulfed by a cloud of tear gas as they aim gas grenades at Panamanian student riflemen who have percipitated a clash over whose flags would fly in the US-administered zone.
Location: Panama
Date taken: 1964
Photographer: Stan Wayman




Most US accounts put the number of Americans killed in these events at four, though others put the death toll at three or five. Those who died on the American side include


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Staff Sergeant Luis Jimenez Cruz

Sergeant Luis Jiminez-Cruz, a native of Puerto Rico, was killed by a sniper in Panama a week ago. He was guarding a roadblock and had been given no ammunition for his rifle.

Luis Jiminez-Cruz, Sergeant, United States Army

Private David Haupt - the siege of Colonel Sachse's men continued. Panamanians hurled
firebombs and fired shots at the Masonic Temple from nearby rooftops. The
army was pinned down by sniper fire from several directions. Private David
Haupt was shot in the head and killed, becoming the first American to die
at the hands of Panamanians in the fighting of January 1964.


First Sergeant Gerald St. Aubin

who were all killed by sniper fire on the 9th and 10th in Colon and

Specialist Michael W. Rowland

whose death was caused by an accidental fall into a ravine on the evening of the 10th. Another 30 US military personnel were wounded in operations to separate the Panamanian and Canal Zone protesters. Most of the 17 injuries suffered by U.S. civilians resulted from thrown rocks or bottles

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