USS Fitzgerald – Search and Rescue Efforts Continue

USS Fitzgerald – United States Navy Destroyer
PHILIPPINE SEA – Search and rescue efforts continue by U.S. and Japanese aircraft and surface vessels in the hopes of recovering the seven USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) Sailors still unaccounted for after the ship was involved in a collision with the Philippine-flagged merchant vessel ACX Crystal at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time, June 17, while operating about 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, Japan.
Shortly after the collision the