Donald Wilfred Shanks

Boatswains Mate 3rd Class
USS ORISKANY (CVA-34), TF 77, 7TH FLEET
United States Navy
21 December 1940 - 26 October 1966
Crescent City, California
Panel 11E Line 114

7TH FLEET

USS ORISKANY 		Good Conduct, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Donald Wilfred Shanks

12 Aug 2004

REMEMBERED

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 26 October 1966 USS ORISKANY endured a major shipboard fire which killed 44 officers and crewmen and injured many more. The ship steamed to Subic Bay in the Philippines for temporary repairs before continuing on to the United States for permanent repairs. Eight months later she was again conducting operations off North Vietnam.

Details and a list of the dead are on The Virtual Wall's
USS ORISKANY Memorial





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Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
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