On 7th March 1942, Corporal Earl Ervin Perkins died at an army camp in Co. Antrim. He was the U.S. Army's first fatality in the European Theater of Operations.
Third Engineer Officer John Archibald Brownlie of Gilnahirk died on 7th March 1941 as M.V. Empire Light came under attack from a U-Boat in the north Atlantic.
Greaser Walter Stewart Donaldson of Jerrettspass, Co. Armagh died on 7th March 1941 as M.V. Empire Light came under attack from a U-Boat in the north Atlantic.
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On 7th March 1942, Corporal Earl Ervin Perkins of 34th (Red Bull) Infantry Division, U.S. Army became the first American GI to die in Northern Ireland.