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  • COLLISION AT SEA (33 years ago today-USS Frank E. Evans )

    06/03/2002 7:57:37 AM PDT · by SJackson · 50 replies · 14,551+ views
    History Net ^ | 6-3-2002 | Phil Smith and Mal Lancaster
    On the morning of June 3, 1969, 74 American sailors died when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. By Phil Smith and Mal Lancaster Niobrara is a very small town in Nebraska--so small it doesn't have a cinema, and the locals could not have flocked to see Saving Private Ryan. But Niobrara has a memorial outside its library dedicated to the three Sage brothers, who were the first family group allowed to serve together on a U.S. warship after World War II. Radarman 3rd Class Gregory...