Sailors and guests aboard guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) take part in a ceremony honoring ten survivors of USS Little (DD 803), which was sunk off Okinawa by four kamikaze planes in 1945. Vandegrift hosted the annual reunion of USS Little survivors and friends, with 100 people boarding Vandegrift at Kalama, Washington, for the transit down the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to take part in the 100th anniversary of the Portland Rosefest Celebration. USS Vandegrift rifle team rendered a 21-gun salute and survivors, friends and family tossed roses over the side in memory of those

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Sailors and guests aboard guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) take part in a ceremony honoring ten survivors of USS Little (DD 803), which was sunk off Okinawa by four kamikaze planes in 1945. Vandegrift hosted the annual reunion of USS Little survivors and friends, with 100 people boarding Vandegrift at Kalama, Washington, for the transit down the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to take part in the 100th anniversary of the Portland Rosefest Celebration. USS Vandegrift rifle team rendered a 21-gun salute and survivors, friends and family tossed roses over the side in memory of those lost. ( Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Barbara L. Bailey) Portland Rosefest Celebration 48794

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