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 course ...

Almost as soon as The Wall went up, families came to Washington to find their sailor’s name. They’d find Panel 23, a black granite slab of the Vietnam War Memorial — widely called The Wall — that held ...

HANOI (Reuters) - At least 15 sailors were missing on Thursday after a Panama-flagged cargo ship capsized in rough seas off Vietnam, Vietnamese state media said. The incident happened off the central ...

The effort to add 74 more names to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall got one step closer in the Senate on Wednesday, even as the federal bureaucracy pushed back against the idea. The bipartisan U.S.S ...

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. The USS ...

WASHINGTON--Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., has introduced legislation to honor sailors who died in the sinking of the U.S.S. Frank E. Evans during the Vietnam War. An amendment offered by Hoeven directs ...

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 more ...

Ronald Perkins, a military veteran from Manchester, New Hampshire, was wearing a dark blue Navy hat with the name “USS Frank E. Evans” embossed on it. “Are you a Navy veteran?” I asked. “Yes,” he said ...

“Myths and legends have been written and spoken about the Vietnam era. And oftentimes, I think back on those days in Vietnam, about how much we did, what we didn’t do and what we could have done.” ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hopes are fading as rescuers search for 14 sailors feared dead after an oil tanker capsized off southern Vietnam and began leaking fuel ...

For sailors on the U.S.S. Enterprise, Jan. 14, 1969, seemed like any other day – until it wasn’t. The aircraft carrier was 80 ...