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Casualty Info
Home Town Crescent City, CA
Last Address Crescent City, CA
Casualty Date Oct 26, 1966
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location Tonkin Gulf
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Veterans Memorial Cemetery - Crescent City, California
A Note from The Virtual Wall On 26 October 1966 USS ORISKANY endured a major shipboard fire which killed 44 officers and crewmen and injured many more. The ship steamed to Subic Bay in the Philippines for temporary repairs before continuing on to the United States for permanent repairs. Eight months later she was again conducting operations off North Vietnam. Details and a list of the dead are on The Virtual Wall's USS ORISKANY Memorial