Deane Hinton and Colonel John D. Waghelstein At Ilopango Airport
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United States Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton, center, and U.S. military advisor Colonel John D. Waghelstein, right, stand with others at the Ilopango Airport in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 26, 1983. The group was waiting for the body of the assassinated U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Albert Schaufelberger III to be loaded onto a military cargo for a flight to the United States. Schaufelberger was the senior U.S. Naval representative and security chief for the 55 U.S. Military Advisors in El Salvador from August 1982 until he was killed in San Salvador on May 25, 1983. He was the first U.S. serviceman killed in the twelve-year armed conflict.
