Subject: Uss Bennington web site
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:26:19 EST
From: KenPage@aol.com
To: bcopeland@uss-bennington.org, lonnie@lpwe.com
CC: jkpires@capecod.net

I received your email addresses from Joseph L. Pires.  For quite some time I
have been trying to obtain the names, etc. of individuals who died in the
service of their country in places other than Korea during the period from
June 25 1950 to July 27 1954 (1 year after the armistice).  I was able to
obtain a great deal of information on USAF plane crashes but was not having
much success with ARMY, NAVY or MARINE deaths except for what members of our
chapter found by reading microfiche of newspapers from the early 1950s.
While working on some matters involving the USS Boxer I was told that there
were quite a few deaths aboard the Bennington.  I then found the USS
Bennington site and, lo and behold, there was a list of casualties from the
1953 explosion and the 1954 explosion.  I see that Joe Pires did a lot of
the
typing for the web site.  He and others responsible for maintaining the web
site are to be congratulated for all of the work put in to have a great deal
of information available to others.
Kenneth E. Page, Director, Northeast NY Chapter, Korean War Veterans Assn.,
Inc., Troy, NY