Damaged USS Fitzgerald Departs Japan Aboard Heavy Lift Vessel
The U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) departed its anchorage in Yokosuka Harbor, Japan over the weekend for its voyage back to
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