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Melvin Spence DryMelvin Spence Dry

From left: LT Spence Dry, WO Philip L. Martin, and Grayback CO CDR John D. Chamberlain

Bronze Star 

Rank/Rate Lieutenant
Birth Date March 13, 1946
From Kings Point, New York
Decorations Bronze Star
Submarine SEAL Team One/UDT-11 on USS Grayback (LPSS-574)
Date of Death June 6, 1972
Location Off North Vietnam
Circumstances Died on a mission to rescue two POWs
Remarks

Spence was the last SEAL lost during the Vietnam War.

  Photo from U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, July 2005. Please see this article for further information.

 

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