GI Killed, 4 Hurt in Tank Exercise
United Press International
FRANKFURT, West Germany —
One American soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a live firing exercise by tanks, the Army announced today. The Army’s V Corps said the accident occurred shortly before midnight Monday at the Grafenwoehr training area, about 30 miles northeast of Nuremberg, during simultaneous live firing by a platoon of M-1 Abrams tanks and M-3 Bradley tanks.
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