SECNAV Spencer, Jim Webb Honor Lost South Vietnamese Soldiers in California Ceremony

Attendees of a ceremony honoring of 81 unidentified South Vietnamese soldiers who were killed on 1965. USNI News Photo

WESTMINSTER, Calif. – Following a final prayer by a Navy chaplain, pallbearers lifted a casket containing the remains of 81 unidentified South Vietnamese soldiers and walked to a waiting white hearse.

At a cemetery a mile away, the soldiers – paratroopers killed in 1965 when their U.S. Air Force transport plane crashed in South Vietnam – were laid into the ground by a granite...

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