‘Heartbreaking’: War Department identifies U.S. service members killed in tanker crash in Iraq

An airman flies a KC-135 Stratotanker over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, May 18, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Robert Harnden)

The Department of War on Saturday released the identities of the six American service members killed in the Thursday crash of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker in Iraq.

United States Central Command (CENTCOM) acknowledged the aerial refueling tanker, crewed by six, went down over western Iraq in a statement released Friday. CENTCOM later...