![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Angus King of Maine are two co-sponsors of a bill to have the sailors’ names added to the memorial.Īmong those lost was 21-year-old Gary Joseph Vigue, a 1965 Dover High School graduate who left behind a wife and a 5-month-old son. The Navy, however, insists the incident occurred outside the designated combat zone of the time, and therefore the “Lost 74” don’t qualify for inclusion on the wall in Washington, D.C. What’s more, she was slated to return to this role following the exercise, which was organized as a 40-ship “show of force” demonstration for the North Vietnamese. Proponents argue the Evans had just concluded an extended tour off the coast of Vietnam, providing offshore bombardment support, prior to its fatal collision. The American ship’s bow section sank in just a couple of minutes, killing 74 of her crewmen.įifty years later, survivors from the horrible accident and family members of those lost are fighting to have the names of these sailors added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. On the morning of June 3, 1969, the Evans (DD 754) was literally sliced in two during a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. ![]() It was a training exercise, however, which brought the ship’s service to a brutal end in the South China Sea. Evans served America during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnamese War. ![]()
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