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TIL that the infamous MACV-SOG’s first casualty was Larry Thorne, a Finnish-born officer who served as a captain in the Finnish Army and the Waffen-SS. After WWII, he moved to the US and joined the Army, and died in a helicopter crash on SOG’s first mission. He was buried in Arlington in 2003.

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