Taylor and his crew held a ceremony to remember the sailors lost aboard the ship and called out their names one by one. “But it’s also sobering, because we just found 80 men.” The next day, Mr. Taylor and the Lost 52 team decided to make a run at finding the Grayback.
Submarine Losses, World War II.”Īrmed with the information in that book and Mr.
Taylor his copy of the 1949 Navy history, “U.S. Taylor was introduced to Don Walsh, a former Navy submariner who, as a lieutenant in 1960, reached the deepest point of any ocean on Earth, in the Mariana Trench near Guam. Through his work in undersea exploration, Mr. Military Advisers: American troops are assisting Somali soldiers fighting Al Shabab, a branch of Al Qaeda, in what is the most active front in the “forever wars” that the United States has waged since the Sept.Brown Jr., who is the Air Force chief of staff, and the 38th commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Milley in the role appears tо be down to two names: Gen. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: President Biden’s list of candidates to replace Gen.Preparing for a Pacific Island Fight: A 10-day mock battle across Southern California gave a new Marine regiment the chance to test war-fighting concepts the Pentagon may one day need in a battle with China.withdrawal from Afghanistan featured emotional testimony from two American service members who lived through it. Afghan Withdrawal: The first House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the U.S.But the Navy had unknowingly relied on a flawed translation of Japanese war records that got one digit wrong in the latitude and longitude of the spot where the Grayback had probably met its end. The Grayback was thought to have gone down in the open ocean 100 miles east-southeast of Okinawa. The history, issued in 1949, gave approximate locations of where each submarine had disappeared. By late March it was more than three weeks overdue to return, and the Navy listed the submarine as missing and presumed lost.Īfter the war, the Navy tried to piece together a comprehensive history of the 52 submarines it had lost. 28, 1944, when the Grayback, one of the most successful American submarines of World War II, sailed out of Pearl Harbor for its 10th combat patrol. It was hidden from discovery all this time by a single errant digit. A 75-year-old mystery has been solved, and the families of 80 American sailors lost at sea will now have closure: the U.S.S.
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