BRUNEI (Nov. 14, 2016) Rear Adm. Don Gabrielson, Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific/Task Force 73 and Hon. Craig Allen, United States Ambassador to Brunei, unveil a memorial plaque at the Embassy for USS Salute (AM-294) which sank in Brunei waters on June 7, 1945. Salute, commissioned 4 December 1943, was a Navy oceangoing minesweeper performing pre-invasion sweeps for landings in Brunei Bay, Borneo, when the ship struck a mine and sank in early June 1945.

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