2nd Lt Tracy Alger US Army

Tracy Alger, Second Lt. US Army

117th female fatalityof the WAR

Posted November 3, 2007

New Auburn, Wisconsin native killed in Iraq

The Associated Press

NEW AUBURN — A New Auburn native whose passion was barrel-racing died when an improvised explosive device exploded near her Humvee in Iraq, her mother said Saturday.

Second Lt. Tracy Alger, 30, died Thursday, according to her mother Pauline Knutson, of New Auburn...

...Alger’s younger sister, Tanya Leo, served in the Air Force. Tanya’s husband also was in the service, and Knutson was a member of the National Guard...

The Defense Department had not released details of her death Saturday afternoon.
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