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Remains Of Bergen County Soldier Killed In Vietnam Plane Crash Recovered
Albert Trudeau was a 22-year-old Bergen County resident when he was killed fighting the Vietnam War in 1971.
After 53 years, The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Wednesday, Dec. 4, they had finally found the Teaneck man's remains.
In October 1971, Trudeau, a U.S. Army Warrant Officer was, assigned to the 68th Aviation Company, 52nd Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, the DPAA said. On Oct. 26, Trudeau was serving as the pilot of a CH-47B “Chinook” helicopter when it went down over water in bad weather while flying in Vietnam, the DPAA said.
The remains of four of …
Robert Brack, 73, Of West Caldwell; Earned Silver Star In Vietnam
Robert F. Brack Sr. of West Caldwell died Nov. 22. He was 73 years old.
He is survived by his wife, Rosa; children Nicole Pezzola, Brian Brack and Bobby Brack, and his wife Christine; grandchildren MIcaela, Dante and Penelope; and his former wife Barbara Brack, mother to their children.
Robert Brack was a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, serving four tours as a staff sergeant with Special Forces Group with the U.S. Army Airborne in Khe Sanh, A101 in 1965; I Corps C-Team S-2 and Psy Ops 1966; in Thuong Doc, A-109 in 1968; and in a mobile strike force from 1967 through 1968.&nbs…
‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas, Onetime Drug Kingpin, Dead At 88: Report
Frank Lucas, a notorious drug dealer who became something of a folk hero after he was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the blockbuster mob movie “American Gangster,” died Thursday, TMZ reported.
Lucas, 88, passed away while being transported to a medical facility in New Jersey, where he lived, TMZ also reported.
Lucas rose to underworld fame in the late 1960s after spending years as a protege to Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, an African-American gangster based in Harlem.
Lucas soon began importing pure heroin from Southeast Asia in the caskets of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. He was a…
