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4. Same day USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost with all hands

Reply to packman (Original post)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 11:48 AM

Sep 2021

On May 22, 1968 just about all US Navy ships and submarines on the east coast cast off and searched the continental shelf and beyond for the sub found years later near the Azores at about 10,000 feet.

In 1968 there was a lot of dying going on.

Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez is to be admired.

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