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Historical Profile: Staff Sergeant Thomas T, Handwork
                                     
If you have any information related to the incident in which Sgt Handwork lost his life, 
his contributions to our MSG and USMC legacy,
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SSgt. Thomas T. Handwork

Marine Security Guard Battalion
US Embassy San Salvador, El Salvador

Assassinated - 1985



SSgt Handwork was killed by an El Salvador Terror Cell called the "Mardoqueo Cruz" urban commando of PRTC.  FMLN defended the attack in a communiqué. In a subsequent trial, three people were tried and convicted. Two other trials were instituted for the same attack.
One of them did not reach the sentencing stage, since the accused was amnestied; in the other, sentence has yet to be passed on the accused.


Detachments: San Salvador
MOS:
OCCUPATION:
USMC Bio:


Additional Information:
Chicago Tribune Article






Subject
 MEGA Profile
Item Type
 Profile
Item Number
 HP_SanSalvador_1985_Handwork
Location of Master
 MEGA
Contact
 TBD


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Norm Thompson

Historical Committee
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