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Flag-draped coffins of troops from sunken tank sent to Dover

| August 13, 2020 10:03 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The flag-draped coffins carrying the remains of seven Marines and a sailor who died after a Marine Corps seafaring tank sank off the coast of Southern California have arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for burial preparations.

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