Patrick Gallagher threw himself on a hand grenade in Vietnam in July 1966, protecting fellow Marines.
This photo provided by Bath Iron Works shows streamers bursting into the air as the USS Patrick Gallagher is christened at a ceremony at the Bath Iron Works on Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Bath, Maine. The future USS Patrick Gallagher is a guided missile destroyer that’s under construction, bearing the name of Patrick Gallagher, the late Irish citizen and U.
S. Marine.The Navy has christened its newest destroyer in the name of Patrick Gallagher, a Camp Pendleton-trained Marine who threw himself on a hand grenade in Vietnam in July 1966, protecting fellow Marines while fighting near Da Nang. Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher, seen in this file photo. Three sisters of Gallagher, a Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross have christened a U.S. Navy warship bearing his name, Saturday, July 27, 2024, and secured a promise that the ship will visit Ireland. The grenade did not detonate. But Gallagher’s selflessness led to him being awarded the Navy Cross, the second-highest military decoration that can be conferred on a sailor or a Marine.San Diego’s troubled carrier USS Boxer faces another long stay in a repair yard Gallagher was killed while on patrol the following year, about a week before his tour of duty was to end. He was 23. He had originally emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland to attend college but ended up enlisting in the Marines and being sent to Pendleton.Click to print San Diego’s short-term rental rules have had a disastrous effectGreyhounds up for adoption in San Diego after sudden closure of historic Tijuana racetrackComic-Con 2024: The best things we saw SaturdayAvocado hand: How to avoid an injury so common that surgeons have a name for it
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