On Eternal Patrol - Lost Submariners of the U.S. Navy
Melvin Spence Dry
From left: LT Spence Dry, WO Philip L. Martin, and Grayback CO CDR John D. Chamberlain
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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Dry, Melvin Spence
