VIETNAM & LAOS
November - December 1969
VIETNAM & LAOS
November - December 1969
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Dec. 1969 Duc Lap Agence France Presse
Alian Saint Paul |
Newspaperman Is War Victim Saigon (Reuters) - A French newsman was killed today near the Green Beret outpost at Duc Lap. The newsman, Alain Saint Paul, was working for the French wire service Agence France Presse. Spokesmen in Saigon said Saint Paul, 28, was killed by shrapnel. Saint Paul was the 22nd newsman to be killed while covering the Vietnam war. According to A. F. P. he was crouching in a trench at a defensive outpost about three miles from the Cambodian border when a Soviet-made rocket exploded near him. (Seattle Times, Seattle WA, 6 Dec 1969)
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On Board Explosions,
Lost at Sea
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Dec. 26, 1969 At Sea *SS Badger State*
Mohamed Al-Muwallad |
5 Bodies Sighted in Search for Missing Crew Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - An American freighter searching in stormy mid-Pacific seas for 25 missing United States seamen yesterday reported sighting five bodies and an overturned lifeboat. A Navy spokesman said the Flying Dragon, one of four ships searching for the seamen who abandoned their Vietnam-bound ammunition ship, the Badger State, was prevented from recovering the bodies by treacherous seas. Before the bodies and lifeboat were sighted by crewmen of the Flying Dragon, only an empty seven-man liferaft had been turned up by the searching ships and aircraft. Hope dimmed that any of the missing men would be found alive. The men jumped into the sea 1,500 miles from Honolulu Friday as the ship was reported breaking up an hour before an explosion in the Badger State's cargo of rockets and bombs tore a hole in the starboard stern. Fourteen other crewmen were rescued. The Navy indicated there was a chance the 459-foot vessel, still afloat with smoke pouring from her stern, could be towed to port. The Badger State was en route to Vietnam from the Bangor Naval Ammunition Depot near Bremerton. Three men from the Seattle area were among those rescued, according to a list issued by the ship's owner. They are Lawrence McHugh, Donald Byrd and James McClure, whose street addresses were not immediately available. (Seattle Times, Seattle WA, 28 Dec 1969)
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