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When the Vietnam Memorial Wall was dedicated in 1982, family members and surviving crew were stunned to find the names of the lost sailors were not included. DoD photos.
The 2,706 Marines and sailors who died in Vietnam while serving in the 5th Marine Regiment are a step closer to being honored with a memorial at Camp Pendleton.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Pentagon has refused a long-standing request to add the names of 74 U.S. sailors who died in a 1969 ship collision to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Kraus, 72, president of the USS Frank E. Evans Association, has for the past 15 years helped lead the push urging the Defense Department to add the names of the 74 sailors — each of whom had ...
On June 3, 1969, Steve Kraus was a 22-year-old signalman of the watch on board the USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea. It was 3:05 a.m. when he saw that the destroyer was on a collision ...
Nixon and Kissinger weighed a nuclear strike to end the Vietnam War—mines, bombings, even wiping out dikes were on the table.
Some Vietnam veterans are living in fear, others dying without benefits they say they deserve, after the government revoked medical care for thousands of veterans who say they were exposed to a ...
Yet, as Công An Hà Nội picked up a second win on the trot in the ASEAN Club Championship with a 5-0 rout of Singapore 's Lion City Sailors, some of their rising talents showed why Vietnamese ...
Vietnamese officials rescued all 19 crew members aboard a Singaporean-registered cargo ship that sank off Vietnam's central coast, an official said Friday. The 19 Indonesian crew members were ...
The Pentagon on Sunday refused a request to add the names of 74 U.S. sailors who died in a 1969 ship collision to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Pentagon has refused a long-standing request to add the names of 74 U.S. sailors who died in a 1969 ship collision to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.