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It is with deep regret that I inform you of the passing of Rear Admiral (lower half) Mark William Balmert on...
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Sinking of USS Houston (CA-30) in the battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942. (Painting by Joe T. Fleischman, 1950 (NHHC NH 93153))

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Former POWs U.S. Navy Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, right, and U.S. Navy Capt. James A. Alfred Mulligan, left, talk during their flight on a Military Airlift Command C-141 Starlifter after being released by the North Vietnamese in February 1973 (National Archives and Records Administration 330-CFD-DD-ST-99-04242).

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