Stories of sailors killed in destroyer-container ship crash
Among the seven U.S. Navy sailors who died in the Saturday collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine-flagged container ship off Japan were an Ohio man expecting to retire soon, a Maryland man who was his father’s best friend and a former volunteer firefighter in his Virginia hometown.
Here are snapshots of them taken from interviews of family and friends:
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SHINGO ALEXANDER DOUGLASS, California