"At the time, I never even thought about it," he said. Wilson and the direct actions of crew members like Johnson, said the ship's then-photographer Wayne Stewart of Spokane, Washington. That list of names almost certainly would have been longer if it had not been for the intervention of the Henry B.
memorial - 25 Air Force pilots and crew members, two Navy corpsmen and 14 Marines lost during the ground and air attack. The military fatalities that ensued are the last 41 names on the D.C. The Mayaguez incident sparked the final battle. But as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington attests, American involvement in combat in the region lasted another 26 months. ground operations ended on March 29, 1973, halting the long warfare in the Southeast Asian country. This year's Vietnam War Veterans Day marks 50 years since U.S. In addition to being commander and chaplain of American Legion Post 216 in Elk Grove Village, Ellingsen has become something of a historian of the incident and the entire service life of the Henry B.
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