USS Ralph Johnson named after Vietnam Medal Of Honor fallen Marine

MILITARY: Navy naming ships after trio of local military heroes

By MARK WALKER
Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Three American heroes with ties to Camp Pendleton and San Diego are having new U.S. Navy destroyers named after them.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced Wednesday that three of its latest guided-missile destroyers will be named the USS Rafael Peralta, the USS John Finn and the USS Ralph Johnson.

Peralta was a San Diego native who died a hero in Iraq in 2004.

Finn, a longtime county resident who died in 2010, was awarded a Medal of Honor for bravery during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Johnson was a Camp Pendleton Marine posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War in 1968.
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