Hilda Clayton

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(1) Spc Hilda I Clayton. May 21, 1991 to July 2, 2013. Military Review (a magazine published by Army University Press), May-June 2017.
http://www.armyupress.army.mil/J ... 17/Clayton-cover-3/

Note: Hilda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda

(2) Christine Hauser, A Fatal and Fiery Photograph; image for memories of a soldier's life. New York Times, May 9, 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/ ... rmy-photograph.html

Excerpt in the window of print: Highlighting the role of women in combat deployments

Quote:

"As of Monday, 2,216 American service members have died in Afghanistan since 2001, according to Pentagon figures. Specialist [abbreviation: Spc] Clayton's name, published in a list of dozens of pages on iCasualties.com, was categorized as nonhostile because it took place during training.

"On the morning of July 2, 2013, Specialist Clayton[, a combat photographer,] was sent on a live-fire exercise to train Afghan soldiers in combat photography. Afghan soldiers and other American personnel were on the mission. At one point, one of the Afghan soldiers dropped a mortar round into the tube and a malfunction occurred, Maj Steven Miller, Specialist Clayton's supervisor there, said in an interview. * * * An Afghan soldier named Tamim took another photograph of the same moment from a different angle. He and three other Afghans were also killed.

"Combat photography is one of the most dangerous jobs in war. The explosion on the deck of the USS Enterprise from a Japanese bomb attack on Aug 24, 1942, was captured in a photograph by a combat photographer, Mate Third Class Robert Fredrick Read. He and several others died of injuries from the explosion.

"Specialist Clayton attended Westside High School in Omaha, Neb, went to technical college in Augusta and graduated from the Defense Information School in 2012.  She met her husband, Chase Clayton, in Augusta.

My comment:
(a) This report is long, afull page in print. There is no need to read the rest of this report.
(b) Augusta, Georgia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia
(The city was named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772); the third largest city in Georgia; is best known for hosting The Masters golf tournament each spring)
(i) The top five biggest cities in Georgia, by population, are, in that order: Atlanta, Columbus, Augusta, Macon and Savannah.
(ii) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/saxe-coburg-gotha
(pronunciation)