Bodies found on board damaged US destroyer
18 June 2017 |
4:00 pm
The bodies of missing sailors were found in flooded compartments of the USS Fitzgerald, which came close to sinking after a collision with a container ship off Japan tore a gash under the warship's waterline.
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