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AMERICAN SUBMARINER VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE The Official Magazine of the United States Submarine Veterans Inc. is published quarterly Wayne Standerfer by USSVI. United States Submarine Veterans Inc. National Commander is a nonprofit 501(c)(19) corporation in the State Contents of Connecticut. NATIONAL OFFICE Fred Borgmann 12 U.S. Navy Radio Intelligence During the Second World War and the POB 3870 Sinking of the Japanese Submarine I-52 Silverdale, WA 98383 (877) 542-DIVE

20 Death Run ’79 USSVI COMMITTEES Happy New Year Shipmates, 27 MEMBERSHIP From the Submarine Library Short of being in suspended animation, it is difficult for me to realize that we are Steve Bell, NJVC 20 years deep into the 21st century. Where did the time go? (704) 824-3510 [email protected] 28 Boise Base Participates in Local Activities Our membership numbers over this 20-year time frame have increased from 7,232 members in December 2000 to a high of 13,847 in 2011. Since then we have slowly WAYS & MEANS NATIONAL EDITOR 29 USSVI Academic Scholarship Program Currently Accepting Applications declined to plus or minus 12,500 and for whatever reason can’t seem to climb above Jon Jaques, NSVC T Michael Bircumshaw this number. I do not have the final numbers going into 2020, but hopefully we [email protected] POB 892616 will maintain or exceed our current plateau. New members are the lifeblood of any (615) 893-7800 Heroes Among Us Temecula, CA 92589-2616 organization. For USSVI to survive and thrive, it is incumbent upon each of us to do what CONSTITUTION & BYLAWS [email protected] 30 we can to recruit new members. Skip Turnbull (951) 775-4549 Pocono Base Joins State and Local Officials in Dedication of Memorial Over the past year, I had the privilege and honor of personally attending several (Parliamentarian) Fax (951) 239-0522 Highway in Pennsylvania (217) 487-7710 major SubVet functions. The first was in Laughlin, Nevada, in March for the Western [email protected] TREASURER Region Roundup (Conference). In early May, I headed east to Groton, Connecticut, Paul Hiser USSVI Presents Author Dr. Charles Hood With Certificate of Appreciation for USSVI’s 55th anniversary, and returned a month later to attend Groton Base’s very AWARDS (215) 317-5666 impressive Holland Club Induction Ceremony. August found me in Austin, Texas, for the Harold W. (Bill) Scott II [email protected] 31 (512) 826-8876 Community Volunteers Plant Trees at Fresno State in Honor of 2019 National Convention. On September 26, I had the privilege of laying a wreath [email protected] DISTRIBUTION U.S. Submariners at the dedication of the USS Thresher Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery Neal Britner in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. It was a truly humbling NATIONAL CONVENTION (315) 409-8476 experience. I finished the year by attending the SubVet Panama City Beach Christmas Richard (Ozzie) Osentoski WWII Submarine Veterans Honored at Kings Bay Ceremony (734) 671-3439 [email protected] Party in Florida. Shipmates, I can honestly say we have an outstanding organization of submarine veter- EAGLE SCOUT PROGRAM BOAT SPONSORSHIP CHAIR 32 Guidelines for Submitting Proposed Amendments to the David Farran Jack Messersmith ans all across the country. Meeting so many of you this past year has heightened the pride Constitution and Bylaws I take in serving as your National Commander. The advancement of our organization’s (318) 352-1015 (928) 227-7753 [email protected] [email protected] 33 stated creed is evident everywhere I go. Iowa Submarine Veterans Celebrate Opening of Memorial Highway But as is usually the case, for every positive, there is a downside. We presently have BOAT SPONSORSHIP PROOF TEAM an issue that is rapidly becoming a serious problem. I am referring to the reluctance Jack Messersmith Bill Andrea Does the Crew of USS Segundo (SS-398) Deserve Another Medal? of members to serve in leadership positions, particularly at the base level. Getting (928) 227-7753 [email protected] Neal Britner members to step forward has always presented a challenge, but in recent years it has Dick Kanning 34 Parade Float Wisconsin (SSN-908) Celebrates Eleven Years of Service escalated. I will have more to say on this in the coming months. BOARD OF INQUIRY John Mansfield We presently have three bases on the verge of, or in the process of closing Chairman Joan Miner 37 (including one with 50-plus members), due to non-participation by their members. Ross Sargent (JA) Parades, Picnics, Pinning Ceremonies and More—Western District 4 Bases (703) 629-1119 STAFF ARTIST If this trend continues, USSVI will eventually and prematurely be forced to shut down, Steam Full Speed into Fall Members Tom Denton not due to lack of members, but to a lack of participation by the members. Therefore, Dutch Holland (301) 845-0049 I’m asking you to get out of your recliner or off your behind and volunteer. Guys, 38 Call for Nominations Herbert Orth [email protected] this doesn’t require rocket science brain power, nor does it demand an excessive Bill Windle amount of your time. The information needed to be successful at any level of 39 HISTORIAN WWII SUBVET HISTORIAN The Ink Years leadership can be found in our online manuals or from present or past officeholders. Run Jack Jeffries Peter J. Koester your fingers over that set of dolphins and remember what they represent and what USSVI (704) 254-2423 (978) 500-5085 [email protected] does to ensure it is never forgotten. We are just eight months away from the 2020 National Convention in Tucson, STOREKEEPER AMERICAN SUBMARINER DEADLINES In Every Issue Arizona. Start making plans to support your shipmates at Tucson Base and Perch Barry Commons (925) 679-1744 First Quarter December 1 Base, who are working tirelessly to make your visit a memorable experience. Second Quarter March 1 [email protected] 5 National Commander 10 Mail Buoy Information can be found at ussviconvention.org/2020. Third Quarter June 1 HOLLAND CLUB Fourth Quarter September 1 USSVI Committees 18 Kap(SS) 4 Kid(SS) Stay close to family and friends, and have a great new year. Bud Atkins The American Submariner is not responsible for the 6 Regional and District 26 Classifieds All the Best, (860) 440-3120 claims of its advertisers. The primary focus of this Representatives [email protected] publication is for the benefit and service to USSVI 36 Lost boats Wayne Standerfer members. Issues concerning Advertisers may be 7 National Junior Vice 40 New Members National Commander KAP(SS) 4 KID(SS) sent to the editorial staff for mediation. Commander John Riley The American Submariner is copyrighted under 42 Upcoming Boat Reunions (203) 668-9131 National Treasurer [email protected] the laws of the United States of America. Any re- 44 Eternal Patrol production in any form without the written consent 8 Chaplain’s Corner VETERANS AFFAIRS of the editor is forbidden by law. All authorized reproduction requires acknowledgement of source, 9 National Officers John Dudas American Submariner author, and the . (928) 420-0061 | | | | 4 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 5 REGIONAL and DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE WARDROOM

REGIONAL DIRECTORS Steve Bell Medal of Honor National Junior Vice Commander SubmarinerS

I hope that everyone had a wonderful and safe holiday season. Western Region Director Central Region Director Northeast Region Director Southeast Region Director We are now in the new year, which means if you have not paid your National JIM DENZIEN WYVEL “TOM” WILLIAMS III LES ALTSCHULER KENNETH W. NICHOLS Dues, you are delinquent. If this is the case, please get them to your Base Treasurer (623) 547-7945 (512) 632-9439 (609) 395-8197 (352) 465-7732 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] as soon as possible. If you are a MAL, mail them to the National Office. For those of you who have already paid your dues, I thank you very much. One of the great things about our organization is the many submarine related events held each year throughout the country. They are an excellent opportunity to meet with former shipmates and friends and perhaps make a few new ones. I suggest that you take a look around and see what activities may be taking place near you and attend at least one of them this year. Make your plans early and go out and have a good time with your fellow submariners. I am fortunate enough to make DISTRICT COMMANDERS at least a couple a year, and I have a great time at each of them. They are all different WESTERN DISTRICT ONE CENTRAL DISTRICT ONE NORTHEAST DISTRICT ONE SOUTHEAST DISTRICT ONE in many respects, yet the fellowship is the same. (AZ, NM) (AR, KS, MO, OK) (New England) (VA, NC) One last thing before I go—Please, each of you, try to recruit at least one new VIC VAN HORN EDMOND L. IRWIN JEFFREY R. WALSH DAVE CAMPBELL member in 2020. We need all the members we can get. Henry Breault, TM2(SS) CAPT John P. Cromwell (708) 609-9840 (573) 230-7120 (860) 449-2103 (919) 803-1842 USS O-5 (SS-66) USS Sculpin (SS-191) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Smooth sailing to each of you, Steve 1923 1943 WESTERN DISTRICT TWO CENTRAL DISTRICT TWO NORTHEAST DISTRICT TWO SOUTHEAST DISTRICT TWO (CO, UT) (WI, IL) (Lower NY, NJ, Philadelphia) (SC,GA) BRIAN E. BELL PHILLIP OWENS MICHAEL E. BOST WAYNE PHILLIPS Paul Hiser (719) 406-5992 (608) 365-1925 (732) 979-4831 (803) 302-8877 National Treasurer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

WESTERN DISTRICT THREE CENTRAL DISTRICT THREE NORTHEAST DISTRICT THREE SOUTHEAST DISTRICT THREE (ID, MT, WY) (MN, ND, SD, NE, IA) (Pennsylvania) (FL Panhandle, AL, MS, LA) JOE TARCZA DANIEL ANDERSON HUBERT C. DIETRICH STEVEN WALMSLEY (509) 627-2168 (507) 372-2170 (412) 486-2635 (228) 324-4309 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Happy New Year, Shipmates, CDR Samuel David Dealey CDR Eugene B. Fluckey USS Harder (SS-257) USS Barb (SS-220) WESTERN DISTRICT FOUR CENTRAL DISTRICT FOUR NORTHEAST DISTRICT FOUR SOUTHEAST DISTRICT FOUR With the new year, it is once again time for base treasurers to submit their annual 1944 1945 (WA, OR, AK) (Texas) (MD, DE, Northern VA) (Northern Florida) End of Year reports. The current EOY report form can be downloaded from the ussvi. JIM DEMOTT HAROLD (BILL) SCOTT ART GLOVER JAY MACK org website. Select “Documents″ and then “Forms.” The 2019 EOY report will appear (360) 895-0547 (512) 826-8876 (301) 785-6414 (407) 920-9347 at the top of the page. The report is due no later than March 1, 2020. Feel free to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] contact me should you have questions. WESTERN DISTRICT FIVE CENTRAL DISTRICT FIVE NORTHEAST DISTRICT FIVE SOUTHEAST DISTRICT FIVE Our financial records were audited at the Austin National Convention, and a report (Northern CA, NV) (KY, TN) (Upstate New York) (Southern Florida) was submitted to the Board of Directors. There were no unresolved issues. I encourage PETER (PETE) T. JUHOS MARLIN HELMS, JR. JAMES IRWIN JOHN TROIA our members to review the National and Base Financial Policy and Procedures Manuals (916) 983-7943 (865) 387-5625 (518) 383-2481 (239) 980-0846 and become familiar with how our funds are managed. The relevant documents [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] can be found on the USSVI website. On a final note, please consider making a contribution this year to the USSVI WESTERN DISTRICT SIX CENTRAL DISTRICT SIX CDR Howard W. Gilmore CDR Richard H. O’Kane (Southern CA, NV and HI) (IN, MI, OH) Charitable Foundation Fund and the Boat Sponsorship Program. A $10 donation from USS Growler (SS-215) USS Tang (SS-306) each member would dramatically increase the ability to support our ongoing programs 1943 1944 MICHAEL (WILLIE) WILLIAMSON FREDRICK KINZEL (909) 754-0326 (586) 945-8561 such as scholarships, brotherhood funds, and other charitable activities. [email protected] [email protected] Fraternally, Paul WESTERN DISTRICT SEVEN (WY, MT, Western SD, NE) RON MARTINI USSVI PURPOSE (307) 678-9847 On the Cover [email protected] “To Perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Norfolk (SSN-714) heads to while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds and supreme sacrifice be a constant sea after a routine port visit. Norfolk conducted extensive trials of the next-gen- WESTERN DISTRICT 8 eration torpedo, ADCAP, as well as advanced and secret acoustic experiments. source of motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to (ID, UT) The ship also made an active deployment during one of the final spurts of activity CDR Lawson P. Ramage CDR George L. Street III ROBERT MORGAN the United States of America and its Constitution.” from the declining Soviet navy. On 23 July 1988 Norfolk fired the first ADCAP USS Parche (SS-384) USS Tirante (SS-420) (708) 317-7152 torpedo, sinking the ex-USS Jonas Ingram (DD-938). 1944 1945 U.S. Navy photo by Paul Farley [email protected]

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Carl Stigers National Chaplain

Wayne Standerfer Jon Jaques Steve Bell National Commander National Sr. Vice Commander National Jr. Vice Commander (972) 298-8139 (615) 893-7800 (704) 824-3510 [email protected] [email protected] Greetings to all my fellow USSVI shipmates, spouses and are hesitant to ask for help because the training and duty we were [email protected] associate members. involved in depended upon us being strong and self-reliant. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? And so I encourage all of my brothers and sisters out there to An interesting question to ponder: It can be asked and applies please take a few moments and consider calling your local veteran to many different circumstances. Recently I was talking to another support organization and volunteer for a couple of hours. We can veteran who was going through some rather difficult times, and we once again find ourselves serving and making a difference in the were discussing how our attitude and perspective on things around life of a fellow Veteran. The number to the National Veterans Suicide us greatly influence the outcome and how we handle those issues hotline is 1-800-273-8255. I have this number in my phone so I can before us. reference it whenever needed. During that talk, the issue of suicide came up. Not that this By the time you receive this issue, we will have seen the Christmas gentleman was contemplating it, but he asked what drove so and Hanukkah holidays come and go. I certainly hope that you all Ray Wewers Paul Hiser John Markiewicz James E. DeMott many veterans to even think about it. This struck a nerve with had enjoyable holidays and had the opportunity to spend time with National Secretary National Treasurer Immediate Past Commander District Commander of the Year (479) 967-5541 me as I have had to deal with this issue in my own family. My son family and friends. May the new year bring Grace and Peace to each (215) 317-5666 (904) 743-2924 (360) 895-0547 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] is a combat veteran of Iraq, and there have been some issues one of you. I continually pray for you, my fellow brothers and sisters with PTSD. A lot of veterans that have been in severely stressful of the ‘phin and for our brothers and sisters in harm’s way as they situations struggle with this. We have all seen social media serve our great nation while deployed, and also for the families postings about how so many veterans are ending their lives left behind. in the parking lots of VA facilities and pictures of the VA suicide In His Service, hotline being posted. We read how around 22 veterans choose Carl to end their lives daily, and that number is staggering to me. There are that many fellow brothers and sisters out there who Carl Stigers no longer think or believe that anyone cares. 1111 Peermont Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 And so once again, we arrive at the question of Where Do (412) 995-8028 You Live. [email protected] The Word tells us in Philippians 3:13 “Brethren, I count not If you get my voicemail, leave a message and I will get back to myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting as soon as I can. those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,″ The Word teaches us that we need to make the conscious decision to not live in the past. In other words, we do not dwell in UNITED STATES SUBMARINE VETERANS, INC. the glory days no matter how majestic, nor in the deep dark ones, PROUDLY RECOGNIZES OUR we wish to forever forget. In the past, we have both good and bad LONGEST QUALIFIED MEMBERS memories. All too often, we can fall into the trap of the negative ones and dwell there. In Matthew 6:34 The Word tells us to “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.″ So we are encour- aged not to look to the future and think entirely on how things may go then. And we come to the reality that we can only really live for today. The here and now. For only today do we need to deal with the issues that confront us, to make the best choices for ourselves as they apply to us. Yes, we need to plan to some extent but not give Longest Qualifed Officer Longest Qualified Enlisted ourselves up to it. I recently attended a United Way meeting at Cdr. Gus Krause C.O. “Art” Tinsley, ENDC work and met up with a veteran’s representative from an organi- Qualified February 1941 Qualified 1937 zation that assists vets here in the Pittsburgh area. We discussed S 36 (SS-141) S 24 (SS-149) the issues facing a lot of our brothers and sisters today and the stigma of asking for assistance. Many of us, especially submariners, | | | | 8 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 9 You have the Midwatch!

Dear Michael, Dear T Michael Bircumshaw, his position. He also stated that our language are both open. The forward escape and rescue TI was made by dredging the bay for the 1939 Yipes. 1941 and then 1942 in the first para- My name is Cindy Transou. is based on American English. So, using that hatch and the after-engine access hatch are World’s Fair. He came to the TI gate and the graph. Hadn't finished first cup of coffee yet. I I understand that you were COB aboard logic, can anyone tell me one other word in the closed. The after escape and rescue hatch has Jarhead turned him around because he didn’t did say "qualified" as in qualified to complain. USS John Adams (SSBN-620). American English language that changes the been obliterated with the stern. I have been have ID. Nimitz asked if he recognized him, Does going on a day-long dependant's cruise My husband David W. Transou MMCS(SS) pronunciation simply by adding an "r"' to the in touch with Mr. George Robert Schwarz CIV and the kid said no. Nimitz went home, had out under the Golden Gate and not being sea- retired in 1992 after 21 years in the Navy. end to denote 'one who does or is'? USN NHHC in Washington, DC and forwarded his aide call the Marine Barracks to fall out in sick "Qualify"? LOL, if I may brag, my husband Dave served on both surface ships and One who bakes is a /'bākər/, one who bikes to him the details and videos of the wreck, dress uniforms for inspection. Nimitz and his earned the Navy Achievement Medal on his submarines. As a Machinist Mate, he worked is a /'bīkər/, etc. Therefore, one who serves on one of which is a YouTube video below. For driver dressed and arrived at the gate where VERMONT SUBMARINERS second WestPac. I still can't believe how brave with asbestos. He was diagnosed with meso- submarines is a /'səb-mə-'rē-nər/. That is what any further information on these two sub- the Marine duty officer met him, presenting Looking for submarine veterans from all you men were. thelioma on March 20, 2019, and passed away I always say to one who refers to us as a /'s əb- marines please don't hesitate to contact me. his Marines. When Nimitz got to the kid, he and living in Vermont. The U.S. Navy has Dear Susan, two months later on May 23, 2019. ma-rə-nər/ and it usually ends the discussion. http://bit.ly/368IikL introduced himself, saluted his fine Marines, named a Virginia-class submarine for the The diagnosis was a shock for our family. By the way, three of the five online dictio- and went to the O′ Club. Congratulations to both of you. My record is Respectfully, State of Vermont. This is the third U.S. Dave and I were married for 44 years. He naries I used, that offer audible pronunciation, Sadly, while I knew a bit about him when nowhere near as impressive as yours. I only did Neil Naval vessel to be named after the State of 10 short years on seven different boats with was planning to retire June 16, his sixty-sixth speak only the -EENER version. One spoke he died in February 1966, I didn't know that Vermont. USS Vermont (SSN-792) has been a mere 800 days submerged, including two birthday. both and one spoke only the MARE-INNER Editor, he was a submariner, or that my uncle had christened with anticipated commissioning years as chief of the boat on an FBM. Qualified We hired an attorney, but unfortunately version, but he had a British accent. I just received the Fourth Quarter 2019 been a commander on his staff in Pearl during in early 2020. The Green Mountain Base of on three different subs. Your incredible record Dave never got to provide a deposition. Thanks for a great publication. copy of American Submariner. In the article WWII. When the call went out for rag hats to the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. is is six years of supporting and managing things I am looking for shipmates that saw Dave Dusty Wilson on Admiral Nimitz and Pearl Harbor, on page march with the caisson to the cemetery, I looking for submarine veterans to represent at home for a submariner and family. You win! working on machinery during his time on MMC(SS) Retired 13, the first paragraph in the center of the didn't volunteer. I sure wish I had. We all owe and come on board for this historic event for John Adams, or any other submarine he paragraph states that Adm. Nimitz had a him and others so much. So, thanks to Charles Thanks for your service. Chief, our state by supporting the Vermont crew. was aboard. coveted day off from his busy schedule that Hood for a part of his incredible story. On the Best, Michael You immediately go to the head of the class. Email Bill Mattoon at cmattoon@ver- I have located an A-gang shipmate who Sunday, December 7,1942! For the submarine I really like your style. One more shot for the shoulders of giants… montel.net or call (802) 885-3886. I look Real ID or Stay Home worked with Dave on USS Detroit (AOE-4) community that is a glaring mistake. WHERE good guys! Charlie Kotan forward to meeting and greeting my fellow Travelers who use their licenses to get that agreed to be deposed. was your proofreader? ex-ET1(SS) Nuke Best, Michael submarine veterans. More information on the through airport security have one year to I have not been able to find a John Adams Carl E. Rieg Lake Havasu City, Arizona get their REAL ID. Beginning October 1, 2020, USS Vermont Commissioning Committee sailor from the gold crew from November 1981 Dear Editor: Dear Carl, every air traveler 18 and older will need a Great story. Thanks, Charlie. can be found at www.ussvermont.org. to December 1985. My name is Neil Krumbeck and I'm an Sometimes I have the same question. Ahh, REAL ID-compliant driver’s license or another Editor Bill Matoon I am hoping you may be able to assist me Australian scuba diver residing in the Philip- proofreaders. I will chastise them and yell at acceptable form of ID to fly at all U.S. airports. Member, in my search. pines. I have been researching shipwrecks myself in the next mirror I pass by. By the way, Passengers who do not have a REAL ID or USS Vermont Commissioning Committee Regards, in the country for the past seven years and I one exclamation mark is all that is allowed per another form of identification such as a valid Thanks Bill, in addition to all that, they have a Cindy Transou concentrate on wrecks that are accessible to sentence. Only two people have complained passport or U.S. military ID will not be allow- very nice "VERMONT CALENDAR" advertised [email protected] technical divers to a maximum depth of 150 about it and that is not too bad out of the ed to pass through the security checkpoint. in this issue! (281) 460-9555 meters. I am also associated with a company 50,000 readers that might be out there, but Get your REAL ID in advance to avoid any called Sea Scan Survey and although we I suppose that they all figured it was a typo Best, Michael last-minute rush or risk being turned away at Dear Ms. Transou, offer our services professionally, most of our and they immediately forgave us. We will Good morning to you, the airport. I sailed on the 620 from October 1967 until NEED HELP? December of 1970. I have asbestosis. I have historical wreck hunting is done as amateur work harder, I promise. Thanks for your gentle I just read Dr. Charles Hood's excellent "The Silent Service" EXPLAINED! been running a program to encourage my historians and archaeologists but we make understanding and patience. By the way, it is Your National Office story, but I have one small quibble: the quote On my submarine, we did some of the shipmates to get checked for asbestosis and every effort to ensure that any war graves all corrected on the Electronic version on the is here to assist you. should be "a DATE which will live in infamy." stuff we did. We didn’t do the other stuff we mesothelioma for several years now. To date, that we find are treated with the respect that USSVI website. Surprised to see this mistake still being made did because if we did do it, it was a secret. So If you have a membership, less than five percent of our more than 12,500 they deserve. We believe it's very important Best, Michael by an author and not caught by an editor. As we didn’t do it. Even though we did, but not dues or address problem, members have responded. Maybe your letter that war graves are not disturbed and that the the daughter of a WWII veteran, Seabee Eben really. The medals my shipmates and I didn’t give Fred a call at the to me will encourage them to take a look at how families of the crew come to know where their Michael, E. Sherwood, Jr, and wife of a Cold War Sailor, earn for doing what we didn’t do, we did National Office dangerous asbestos can be on any ship built loved ones are at rest. I would like to inform Thanks for all you do, but especially for the ETR2(SS) Bruce Weigel, who served on USS receive, except we didn’t, because we never at 877-542-3483 before 1980. Once you get some feedback, USSVI that our team discovered the wreck 2019 Q4 issue. You have outdone yourself. Medregal (SS-480) and was a USS Pintado went where we were and weren’t there when and I am hoping that you will, I would be glad of USS Robalo (SS-273) on May 23, 2019 in These pictures are worth a million words! I All calls are Welcome! (SSN-672) plankowner. I guess I'm "qualified?" we were, but we did the stuff we didn’t do while to share whatever guidance I can on how to the Balabac Strait off Southern Palawan. She needed a four-foot version of the cover to see Thanks for a great magazine! we weren’t there not doing it. As far as what deal with the VA and attorneys. Shipmates, if lies at a depth of 78 meters, was sunk by a the instrument details! All member deaths are to be boat I was on, we didn’t go where we went and Dear Susan, you served with the senior chief on the 620 Japanese mine, and is located less than one The best article IMO was Charles Hood’s reported to the National Office didn’t do what we did while not doing it. So, the Thank you! I appreciate your good eye. So or any boat, please reach out to Cindy. She nautical mile from the wreck of USS Flier (SS- about Fleet Admiral Nimitz. Fresh from boot in Silverdale, WA bottom line, we weren’t on a boat that I won’t far only three of our members have read the needs your help. 250), discovered in 2009. They were both sunk camp, I was a Seaman Apprentice at Treasure call 877-542-DIVE magazine, at least the Nimitz article. How did mention, not doing what we did, or where in the same minefield 18 days apart. The stern Island (TI) in San Francisco Bay in 65-66. My fa- Best, Michael email [email protected] you miss the 1942 date for Pearl Harbor? If you we weren’t. of Robalo has been destroyed by the explosion vorite story about Nimitz is that he sometimes I hope that clarifies things. snail mail to: say you are Qualified, then I offer my sincere Michael, up to the maneuvering room but the pressure went to the Officers' Club in khakis driving an POB 3870 congratulations. Me too, about 60 years back. I remember as well. You must have been on First let me say, I am a submareener. hull from there forward appears to be intact. old Nash the mile or so from his quarters on Silverdale, WA 98383-3870 Glad you like the mag. one of the same boats I wasn’t on. Regarding Bob's article, he chose to use the On inspection of the hatches, the conning Yerba Buena. YB is the natural island the San Best, Michael Best, Editor dictionary and its rules for usage to support tower hatch and the crew's mess access hatch Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge runs through.

| | | | 10 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 11 der Kriegsjlotten] under Japanese submarine I-1 to I-8…Do not molest.” responsible for the destruction of at least seven additional attack In fact, the German description of the Japanese submarine U-boats, Bogue was guided by Ultra to the area where the was inaccurate. The Japanese Naval Attaché in Berlin caught the unsuspecting I-52 was steaming on the surface during the night error and sought confirmation of the vessel’s characteristics in of 23 June.12 a dispatch to Tokyo—I-52 “has no airplane hangar, but carries a The destiny of I-52 became increasingly ominous because its 14-centimeter gun on the forward deck.” The Chief of the Office every move was observed by U.S. Navy radio intelligence as the of Naval Communications in Tokyo assured the attache that his Japanese submarine sailed toward the mid-Atlantic. For example, description was correct; thus, the Germans (and the U.S. Navy) in early June the Japanese Naval Attaché’s radio dispatch to were alerted about the correct appearance of I-52 long before Tokyo was intercepted—it read: “Signals have been received to the the scheduled date of rendezvous.6 Extensive radio traffic, most effect that MOMI (I-52) crossed the equator on the 4th” of June.13 of which was intercepted and studied, helped to doom the However, an attack was unrealistic because there was a several-day Japanese submarine. time-lag concerning the I-boat’s position and limited Allied forces The earlier compromise of German and Japanese secret radio were available in those vast ocean spaces. Knowing the full communication systems facilitated the Anglo-American assault intentions of I-52, the U.S. Navy could conveniently wait until the on Axis submarines by 1944, particularly in the Atlantic. After June Japanese rendezvoused with the Germans for assistance in getting 1941 the focus of the Atlantic battle map was increasingly through the dangerous Bay of Biscay. Ideally, from Admiral King’s sharpened by Ultra, the initial cover name for information obtained point of view, units of the Tenth Fleet could rendezvous there from deciphered German intercepts produced primary by the as well. Enigma cipher machine. One British historian wrote pointedly that by Additional intercepted German and Japanese messages soon mid-1941 “onwards, British intercept stations received every signal provided a focal point. The German submarine U-530 (commanded transmitted to or by the U-boats.”7 Most significantly, since 1940 by Lieutenant Kurt Lange), which was first tracked by F-21 on 23 May U.S. Navy Radio Intelligence the British and Americans shared intelligence concerning the Axis 1944 outbound from Lorient, received a change in sailing orders powers. The practice increased throughout the war with the on 9 June.14 Instructed to rendezvous with I-52 at 15 degrees N., 40 establishment of several official agreements, for example, an degrees W., a point about 1,000 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands During the Second World War agreement signed by representatives of the British Government (some 1,000 miles east of Barbados) after sunset on 22 June, Lange Code and Cipher School and the United States War Department was told to “approach submerged” and to “surface at 2115” hours. and the Sinking of the of 17 May 1943.8 By mid-1943, the United States started to push for If the initial effort to rendezvous was unsuccessful, Lange was control of communications intelligence in the Atlantic by seizing instructed to listen again on U-SJO’s hydrophones for the Japanese Japanese Submarine I-52 Members of the crew on the flight deck of USS Bogue (CVE-9) view blocks of raw rubber the initiative to use Ultra offensively, particularly in antisubmarine submarine during the following two nights—because at certain that had been part of the cargo of the recently sunk Imperial Japanese Navy submarine warfare (ASW) operations aimed at U-tankers, German submarines times the I-boat was scheduled to run at high speed on the surface. by Carl Boyd* I-52, June l944. Photo courtesy of The Farmers’ Museum. Newport News, Virginia.) specifically designed to refuel and resupply comparatively short- Additionally, Lange was ordered not to report back to the U-boat range attack U-boats at sea. (A single refueling could extend the Command in Paris (Befehlshaber der U-boote [BdU]) before the Reprinted with permission from average U-boat patrol of forty-one days to sixty-two days, and a rendezvous. Thereafter, BdU wanted a “completion report” but only The Journal of Military History specific mention of I-52, and its proposed blockade-running voyage, second refueling could yield a patrol of eighty-one days.) Between when U-530 was at least 150 miles away from the Japanese submarine. March 1942 and May 1943, U-tankers had carried out some 390 At that time Lange was en route to his new patrol area around Trinidad.15 Vol. 63, No. 2 April 1999 appeared in intercepted traffic in late January 1944. The Vice Chief of the Naval General Staff in Tokyo informed the Japanese Naval refueling operations in the Atlantic.9 The Germans sought to assist the Japanese in their efforts to Attaché in Berlin of the forthcoming operation. “The l-52…is expected Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of naval operations (CNO) and reach port safely, yet the Germans were cautious and moved warily. to depart from Singapore in the latter part of March. As her cruising commander in chief, U.S. Fleet (COMINCH), established a special U-530 was ordered to transfer a German liaison officer—along range is greater than MATSU (cover name for l-29 which left Lorient intelligence section within COMINCH headquarters, the Atlantic Section with the latest German search radar equipment—and two enlisted (F-21) of the Combat Intelligence Division. Its chief responsibility operators to the Japanese submarine in preparation for its The 1995 discovery of the Second World War Japanese to start its return trip to Japan on 16 April 1944), it will probably be was “to correlate, evaluate and disseminate naval intelligence of dangerous trip through the Bay of Biscay to Lorient.16 H submarine I-52 resting on the Atlantic Ocean floor attracted unnecessary for her to refuel en route.”1 Soon FRUPAC (Fleet Radio owever, oper T much attention in the international press. Nearly three miles Unit Pacific at Pearl Harbor) learned that tons of rubber, tungsten, and ational or combat significance within the Atlantic Theatre.”10 the Germans tried to play down and to dispel the Japanese navy below the surface, somewhat deeper than the wreckage of Titanic other commodities urgently needed in Germany were scheduled to A Combat Intelligence Division warning message could reach an command’s fears about the hazards of sailing in the Bay of Biscay or Bismarck, the successful search for the comparatively small be loaded aboard the large I-boat before sailing for Lorient, France. Allied command in the mid-Atlantic within twenty minutes of where the Allies had initiated an air offensive beginning in late spring submarine was no minor feat for modem deep-ocean exploration Then FRUPAC learned from Japanese radio intercepts that l-52 was detecting a U-boat radio transmission. 1943. As a COMINCH U-boat intelligence summary report of 10 July Ultr 1943 revealed, U-boat commanding officers engaged in transport technology. However, newspaper headlines emphasized the gold en route from Sasebo, Japan, to Takao (Kao-hsiung on the southwest a information was usually processed in the Secret Room exchange operations with the Japanese were instructed to maintain aboard the Japanese submarine. When I-52 was sunk over fifty years coast of Taiwan) on 16 March, but the date the submarine would set (F-211) adjoining F-21, where Commander Kenneth Knowles was the “appropriate attitude and conduct of your whole crew in the pres ago, it was en route to German-occupied France. It carried nearly sail from Singapore for Europe was postponed until 7 May.2 in charge of the Submarine Tracking Room. At various times after - pure gold bullion worth about $25 million by today’s standards, The voyage of the fully loaded I-52 was followed through mid- 1943, enemy submarine tracking and daily position pins were ence of the Japanese on board. But under no circumstances is the about $2.3 million by 1944 standards. The New York Times headlines intercepted and deciphered communications as the new submarine recorded on wall maps and charts in both F-21 and F-211. However, attention of the Japanese to be drawn to any special endangerment declared “Lost Japanese Sub with 2 Tons of Axis Gold Found on Floor steamed across the Indian Ocean and into the South Atlantic.³ the precise identity of Ultra-derived intelligence was usually restricted of the Bay of Biscay.”17 of Atlantic” (18 July 1995) and the Times (London) proclaimed that Tracking of I-52 started when the craft was south of Madagascar to F-211.11 I-52 also had elaborate instructions. After reaching the rendezvous King also established an antisubmarine command known as the point, the submarine (commanded by Commander Uno Kameo18) “Americans Track Down Hirohito Treasure Sub” (19 July 1995). (46 degrees E., 38 degrees S.) on 10 May.4 The daily tracking continued Tenth Fleet, which was made up of several escort aircraft carriers planned to run at high speed on the surface for the first ten minutes Although no astonishing news stories have appeared before this from slightly southeast of Capetown (24 degrees E., 45 degrees S.) (CVEs). Their operations were carefully guided by Ultra; specifically, of every hour. But greater details of the rendezvous plans were essay went to press, efforts to recover the gold indeed continue. on 13 May, to crossing the equator in early June, and to the rendezvous the CVEs were armed with coordinates provided by F-211. Thus, provided in a message from the Japanese Naval Attaché in Berlin to Yet our concern here is with the historical dimensions of the modern with U-530 in the mid-Atlantic.5 these offensive platforms at sea, which were frequently engaged Commander Uno. The intercepted message announced that the discovery. I-52 was found in part because of the archival record The Germans eagerly sought the safe arrival of the Japanese in general ASW operations, started to target enemy submarines of wartime radio intelligence, the sophisticated tool used by the submarine. At the end of May, German authorities warned their forces (r)endezvous point is 15 degrees N., 40 degrees W.; time of rendez- more effectively by mid-1943. These were specifically Tenth Fleet U.S. Navy so effectively during the war. Thus, this is an examination at sea that I-52 was carrying important cargo and was en route to vous is 22 June at 2115 (at dusk) Your ship will surface, and proceed operations that relied heavily on Ultra. Five Tenth Fleet CVEs (USS of wartime radio intelligence and its detailed role in the destruction western France. The Germans maintained that the I-boat had a special back and forth along the parallel of latitude with the rendezvous Bogue, Card, Block Island, Core, and Croatan) and their task groups of I-52. appearance—an aircraft chamber was built on the forward edge of point as center and await the German submarine. In case the ren- were responsible for the sinking of eight of the seventeen U-tankers Intercepted Japanese radio traffic drew American attention the conning tower, a 14-centimeter gun was aft, and a catapult was dezvous is unsuccessful, you will carry out the above operation at destroyed by July 1944. USS Bogue (CVE-9) was especially adroit in to I-52 shortly after the submarine was commissioned. The first forward. U-boat captains were ordered to “see ‘Weyer[s]’ [Taschenbuch high speed during the first ten minutes of every hour from 0000 to ASW operations. dawn on 23 June. The German submarine will be submerged during * In writing this article I have benefited from observations by Larry Sharp of the National Cryptologic Museum, my former graduate students The first Tenth Fleet U-tanker victim was U-118, which was sunk this time and will pick you up with its hydrophone and attempt a Toshiaki Kaneko and David Kohnen, and members of my graduate seminars in the fall semester of 1997. by aircraft from Bogue on 12 June 1943. One year later, while rendezvous. If the rendezvous is unsuccessful the first day, it will | || | | 12 American Submariner FirstFirst QuarterQuarter 20202020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 13 be attempted in the same manner until dawn of the second day. If The U.S. Navy’s Combat Intelligence Division learned that the general course for the Trinidad-Georgetown-Tobago area off South group had gained considerable experience in attacks on U-boats, but it is still unsuccessful, report by radio.19 Japanese submarine carried highly trained specialists and was laden America. the rigors of this first coordinated use of the Fido acoustic torpedo A summary and analysis of these intercepted, deciphered, and with an important cargo. An intercepted Japanese message revealed The full historical record now reveals that in little more than an and nighttime aerial ASW obviously contributed to the chaos and translated enemy orders were available to Washington naval that there were 109 men aboard I-52.24 Moreover, I-52’s principal car- hour after U-530 left the area of the rendezvous, the Japanese uncertainty inherent in Bogue’s combat report.35 intelligence authorities almost two weeks before the German go included highly scarce commodities in wartime Germany. Yet, the submarine was fatally hit by a Mark 24 acoustic torpedo dropped German and Japanese naval authorities had no evidence that and Japanese submarines planned to rendezvous. The U.S. Navy bulk of the cargo did not surprise Allied intelligence specialists: tin, from a U.S. Navy Avenger bomber. There were no signals from I-52 I-52 had been sunk, although the submarine’s prolonged silence started to draw the noose ever tighter. molybdenum, and tungsten (total of 228 tons); opium (288 tons [sic]); thereafter. was increasingly viewed as a foreboding sign. Various explanations If Allied forces missed the rendezvous of the two Axis submarines, quinine (3 tons); and raw rubber (54 tons) were items that had been Contemporary U.S. Navy battle action reports leave no doubt that for I-52’s silence seemed plausible for a while—for example, that all was not to be lost from an Allied point of view. The Japanese, in frequently carried by blockade runners from East Asia. Of greater I-52 was sunk in the last week of June 1944.31 On 15 June the United the submarine was en route to a Norwegian port and chose not to particular, dispatched detailed information that would have facilitated interest, however, was the gold bullion aboard I-52—”146 bars States escort carrier group built around USS Bogue was diverted transmit radio messages for fear of detection by heavy Allied forces any necessary later attack on the I-boat. Dispatches from the weighing 2 tons packed in forty-nine metal boxes.”25 Indeed, the from general ASW operations to the area where Admiral King’s in the North Atlantic, or that the vessel’s radio equipment had been Japanese Naval Attaché in Berlin spelled out I-52’s later route: Ministry of Finance in Tokyo sent Financial Commissioner Yumoto Combat Intelligence Division knew I-52 and U-530 were scheduled damaged in some unexplainable way, which impaired I-52’s ability to after the rendezvous “you will proceed north along longitude 40 in the Japanese Embassy in Berlin details about the gold: to rendezvous between 22 and 24 June. Continual aircraft antisub- transmit and perhaps to receive messages. Indeed, the Germans had degrees W., and from position 38 degrees N., 40 degrees W., you a. Number of gold bars: 146 (49 boxes). marine search missions were carried out to about seventy-five miles a recent example of this sort of thing: the long-silent U-188, which will head for 43 degrees N., 30 degrees W. From there on you will b. Total weight of bullion: 2,000,229 grammes 0. from the small carrier. was reported lost in May by both the Americans and Germans, suf- proceed to the coast of Spain.” Although Allied forces had landed c. Purity of bullion: 2,000,003 grammes 5. Action was swift once contact was made. Shortly before mid- fered a broken radio transmitter but arrived surprisingly at Bordeaux at Normandy on 6 June, three days later I-52’s captain was told that d. Fineness: over 995 fine. night on 23 June one on 19 June 1944.36 “your port of destination is still Lorient, but depending on the situation, e. Inherent value 7,700,128 yen 64 (if one gramme be taken as of Bogue’s Avenger The Germans kept try- it may have to be changed to Norway.”20 The Germans wanted the 4 yen 80 sen, 9,600,016 yen 80).26 patrol planes, some ing to communicate with Japanese submarine to enter port at Lorient where there was a The gold was intended to replenish the Japanese gold fund special forty-five miles from I-52. Initially, on 27 June, bombproof shelter berth required for fitting I-52 with a snorkel.21 account in Berlin. the carrier, registered after receiving U-SJO’s Indeed, the trip to Norway was to be avoided unless absolutely In addition to learning what the Japanese were shipping to the a radar contact at a report, the German navy necessary, because if fuel ran short, “it would be very difficult for Germans from intercepted radio traffic, thus obtaining a clearer distance of about ten operations department Germany to supply you,” I-52 was told by BdU in France. A couple of picture of German strategic materiel shortages, American intelligence miles. A few minutes started to send routing days later I-52 reported that it had “enough fuel left for 12,000 miles analysts also learned what the Germans were willing to send back to later when the plane instructions by direct at 11 knots and provisions for three months.” However, the Japanese Japan and specifically what Tokyo wanted. For example, the Ger- was within a mile of the wireless to the German submarine also gave its exact position as of 11 June: “10 degrees mans planned to send various types of bombsights and wireless contact, a sonar buoy liaison officer aboard North, 31 degrees West.”22 Although I-52 had sailed from that position plotting devices to Japan.27 was dropped—when the Japanese subma- five days earlier, the report provided F-21 and F-211 in Washington with Recently declassified German and Japanese radio messages and it became operative rine, Lieutenant Schafer. evidence that the Japanese submarine was moving steadily toward the U.S. Navy documents provide a clear tactical picture of what after striking the water, About a month later, new rendezvous point. happened to the two Axis submarines during the night of 23-24 June propeller sounds were instructions were sent to A photgraph of the U-530, circa late 1944. Not only did the extensive radio traffic reveal I-52’s progress for 1944. The I-52/U-530 rendezvous took place on 23 June, much as immediately heard Reproduced by permission of the Biblio ­thek fur Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart.) Schafer—avoid Spanish U.S. Navy intelligence coordinators, but it also provided increasingly the Japanese and Germans anticipated. First Class Petty Officer and recorded on the territorial waters, cut rich detail about the submarine‘s complement and cargo, and I-52’s Rolf Petrasch aboard U-530 recorded in his personal diary that at Avenger’s wire recording equipment. Soon flares were dropped32 across the Bay of Biscay, and send a radio report three or four days overall importance to Axis relations. The two Axis navies planned to 1800 hours on 23 June Lieutenant Schafer was getting ready for the and a large, fully surfaced submarine making 10 to 12 knots was before reaching a designated rendezvous point off Lorient.37 There make a simultaneous announcement that “part of the Imperial Navy’s transfer to the Japanese submarine.28 Leading up to the rendezvous, brightly illuminated. It seemed to be heading on a course opposite was only silence from the Japanese submarine. Suddenly, however, submarine force has sailed to a German base and has completed U-530 crew was excited about meeting a Japanese submarine on that of the American aircraft—the Avenger passed nearly overhead on 30 July a prearranged plain text short QWF signal (repeated the important operations.” Additionally, a German dispatch declared, the high seas. Lieutenant Lange in U-530 gave a report on 27 June at about 1,500 feet. About six minutes had elapsed since the initial next day) was mistakenly thought to come from I-52, but there was “Germany will release photographs on the exchange of Japanese after his submarine maneuvered some 150 miles away from the initial radar contact. Another full minute was required to make a necessary no signature. The message meant that the Japanese submarine in- and German sailors, and additional comments on such points as the rendezvous site. “All hands on the MOMI [I-52] were in good health,” turn, a full circle, for the attack approach up the submarine’s track, tended to rendezvous with a German escort vessel outside of Lorient military discipline of the Japanese crews during their stay in Berlin, Lange reported after noting also that a German “liaison officer and to descend to about three hundred feet, and to drop two Mark 54 in about 36 hours. etc.”23 The Germans and the Japanese Naval Attaché in Berlin also the others were received on board” the Japanese submarine.29 depth bombs. The pilot saw them miss (the flares were still about Frail though the evidence was, new hope immediately took root. planned a celebration for I-52’s arrival at Lorient. In preparation for But neither Lange nor anyone else on U-530 knew I-52 had already 600 feet above the water and continued to illuminate the area) as In a radio dispatch to Tokyo of 31 July, the Japanese Naval Attaché in the festivities, the Japanese attache asked Tokyo on 1 June for the been sunk and that all hands aboard the Japanese submarine were the submarine struggled to submerge as quickly as possible. The Berlin outlined plans for the ceremony upon I-52’s arrival at Lorient, following information concerning I-52: the names of the submarine’s now dead. conning tower and stem could still be seen above the surface. expected to occur about 3 August. Although the train carrying the key officers, the number of crew members, the names of passengers, However, U-530’s log gave a brief, factual account that concluded Almost two minutes later a Fido acoustic torpedo, called the Mark reception party was attacked between Berlin and Paris by enemy and the type and quantity of the principal cargo. It took twelve days with eerie hints of impending doom.30 U-530 arrived at the rendezvous 24 Mine, was dropped. With simple steering toward noise, the Fido aircraft and guerrillas, the attaché reported that the assaults were for various offices in Tokyo to compile the information and radio point at 1930 hours on 23 June 1944. At 2315 hours I-52’s churning was armed with an explosive charge of 92 pounds and had a running repulsed. The reception party planned to travel from Paris to Lorient it to Berlin. screws were heard on U-530’s hydrophone—five minutes later the time of about 10 minutes at 12 knots. In this attack only three minutes by automobile at night, under a special escort unit of some 10 men.38 German submarine surfaced. The Japanese passed before a loud explosion occurred. Crushing sounds and the A desperate dimension seemed to characterize the message to submarine was sounds of bulkheads breaking and air escaping were heard through Tokyo when the attaché raised the issue of people scheduled as immediately sighted. During the next two hours the sonar buoys, and the cavitation noise from the propellers ceased passengers to return (nay, escape) to Japan, including German tech- (2330-0145 hours, 23-24 June) the Germans as the submarine sank deeper and compartments filled with sea nicians, and who had priority for passage over whom! The list already and Japanese worked feverishly in darkness water. Everybody aboard I-52, including the crew, fourteen Japanese amounted to 17. to transfer electronic detection equipment and technological experts, and three Germans, knew that he was going With forlorn hope, arrangements proceeded. A German escort three German sailors to I-52. Mission accom- to die. Curiously, two pistol shots were supposedly detected when a ship stood by in vain for the first four days of August.39 Characteristic plished—rendezvous concluded. recording of the sound the buoys picked up in 1944 was cleaned up of a growing mood in naval circles in Germany was the tone of the Nearly an hour later, however, at 0245 hours, and analyzed through modem computer technology.33 (After sunrise Japanese Naval Attaché’s dispatch to I-52 on 8 August. In faint hue A photograph of Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-16 taken in Hiroshima Bay in March U-530 hastily dove because of the sudden Bogue escorts recovered 6,000 pounds of debris, including blocks he acknowledged that 1940. This submarine was essentially identical in appearance to the I-52, for which no suit- appearance of an airplane that was scouring of raw rubber, sandals, and lumber with Japanese inscriptions.34) (t)hough we have had no communication from you, we pray for able wartime picture has been found. With much smaller diesel engines, the I-52 was some the ocean with searchlights; at 0251 hours flares Although during the ensuing hours after the first attack, more flares, your safety. As it has become dangerous in view of the rapidly six knots slower than the I-16 on the surface at top speed (17 vs. 23 knots) but the I-52 had a appeared at an estimated distance of eighteen several additional sonar buoys, and at least one more homing torpe- developing war situation to enter Lorient or other parts [sic) greater range (about 21,000 vs. 14,000 nautical miles). Source: Nihon Kaigun Sensuikan-shi to twenty nautical miles. At 0604 hours U-530 do were dropped in the vicinity where I-52 was seen crash-diving, the along the French coast, proceed to either Trondheim or Bergen in [History of Japanese navy submarines], compiled and privately published in Tokyo in 1979 surfaced again, but within thirty minutes more evidence is convincing that this initial attack was responsible for the Norway. If convenient, inform us as soon as possible of your con- by the now-disbanded Japanese committee for the study of Imperial submarines. Permission to publish this photograph was kindly given by Mr. Torisu Ken’nosuke (former Lieutenant Commander, IJN) through the searchlights and aircraft were seen. The U-boat sinking. Other attacks, including one thought to be on a “second sub- dition. We have completed discussions with the German Navy.40 good offices of Professor Akagi Kanji and Captain Kitazawa Noritaka (JMSDF, Ret.). dove to safety at 0634 hours and took up a marine,” were of no consequence. For over a year Bogue and its task Finally, on 30 August the German navy declared as of 25 July1944 | | | | 14 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 15 I-52 was missing and presumed sunk. Two weeks later the Japanese commission transport submarines.”48 For their part, the Japanese Naval Attaché’s report to Tokyo concluded that “on cause, place did not send any additional submarines to the Atlantic, and in and date of her loss there are no clues. Assumed she was possibly October 1944 they received the alarming news that Germany was sunk by NC (aircraft) or mine. Curious kind of RDO (radio) short signal essentially giving up efforts to maintain exchange operations. The remains unexplained.”41 Chief Naval Inspector in Germany informed his counterpart in Tokyo No communications could have come from I-52 after midnight that Germany was “stopping…the construction of transport on 23 June and the short QWF signal of 30 and 31 July remains a submarines.” Furthermore, the Japanese were told that their contracts mystery. The Q-Code, created soon after the sinking of Titanic, was for German manufactured goods would be delayed or possibly even IN HONORING a three-letter international code that permitted effective commu- canceled, and because of changing conditions in the war, other nication anywhere in the world, regardless of language differences. goods awaiting shipment to Japan “will be used by Germany.”49 VETERANS Each 3-letter group began with a Q. QWF meant “Is it decided?”42 Commander Knowles at COMINCH Combat Intelligence Division A COMINCH Combat Intelligence Division report titled “U-boat observed in the margin of the “U-boat Intelligence Summary” of 27 Intelligence Summary” dated 19 August 1944 noted that “No QWF October that 18 out of 27 Axis submarines carrying East-West cargo 365 DAYS A YEAR or similar signal was heard by our DF [Direction Finding) net. Inquiry in 1944 were sunk.50 15TH ANNUAL MILITARY REUNION PLANNERS CONFERENCE has been made of the Admiralty as to the possible source of the The last of the Axis surface blockade-runners had been sunk signals.”43 No British response has been found in the U.S. National in January 1944, and the substitute submarine blockade-running MAY 12-15, 2020 Archives and Records Administration. However, the well-known Ger- system also proved to be a disastrous failure later in the year. For the MRPC Application or a Reunion Planner Sales Kit: man historian Jurgen Rohwer raised the question with Patrick Beesly The sinking of I-52 was both symptomatic of this failure and a Julie Peters, CTIS, CEP at [email protected] about the possibility of the British sending fake messages to lure notable example of the sophistication of U.S. Navy radio German escort vessels into a trap. Beesly was Deputy Chief of the intelligence operations. Admiralty’s Submarine Plotting Room during the war. Beesly could U.S. Navy radio intelligence was often crucial in successful recall no such messages.44 Moreover, it is most likely that the British operations in the Atlantic Theater during the Second World War. would have told Commander Knowles if they had sent fake messag- It was clear to learned Allied wartime analysts of ASW operations es. As Beesly has written, Knowles and F-21 were the perfect coun- that air power was vital. Herbert Rosinski, the distinguished émigré terpart to Commander Roger Winn and the Operational Intelligence from National Socialist Germany who during the war lectured widely Centre in the Admiralty. Their cooperation “was probably closer than to British and American naval audiences, wrote in Brassey’s Naval between any other British and American organizations in any Service Annual in 1944 that a “detailed analysis of the transformations and in any theatre.”45 wrought by air reconnaissance in the fabric of naval strategy must After the Germans were finally convinced that I-52 had in fact been wait until the pertinent facts are no longer shrouded in secrecy.”51 sunk, they realized also that the Allies were successful in retaining Ultra, which guided Bogue to the vicinity of the anticipated rendezvous the initiative after the 6 June invasion at Normandy and that the Allies of the two Axis submarines, remained secret from the general public now threatened to overrun Lorient. Logically, much of the matériel until the mid-1970s. Not surprisingly, wartime intelligence specialists in Lorient intended for shipment to Japan was destroyed before the who wrote publicly before the 1970s were usually extremely Allies arrived; furthermore, the Germans made precise radio reports circumspect about the issue of information obtained from intercepted about what exactly was destroyed. Thus, for example, Allied intel- enemy enciphered or encoded communications. ligence specialists learned at the end of August that 35 to 40 tons A case in point is Ladislas Farago, a member of Op-16-W (the of mostly confidential and secret documents and drawings were U.S. Navy’s Special Warfare Branch concentrating on U-boats). In ordered to be “destroyed in good time.” Nearly a month later Tokyo his classic 1962 work on the Tenth Fleet, he offered a series of red received confirmation “of the destruction by blowing up or burning herrings as explanations for the Tenth Fleet’s success—espionage, of all the following purchases collected at Lorient for loading” aboard prisoner interrogation, continuous analysis and statistical evaluation I-52. The four-page radio intercept of items destroyed included “70 of combat operations, radar, various weapon systems, and radio Enigma cipher machines.” Final confirmation came in early February direction finder fixes—and concluded that as “the electronic brain 1945 that “all papers up to January 1945 [were destroyed] by burn- of the American anti-U-boat effort…, [the Tenth Fleet was guided by] ing.”46 This rounded out the Allied intelligence picture of Axis intelligence obtained by great ingenuity and industry from a variety strategic exchanges. of sources.”52 He labored under the shroud of secrecy and, therefore, The war was not going well for Germany and Japan, and time was only glibly cited the I-52 incident: “Commander Knowles’ big plot quickly running out, especially for Germany. The loss of I-52 and two showed graphically…[that] U-530 was moving furtively around the other Japanese submarine blockade-runners that were recently Verdes to a rendezvous with a blockade-running Japanese sub, the sunk was a severe setback to German-Japanese exchange efforts. I-52.”53 No longer, however, is obliqueness necessary in an account From the German capital the Japanese Naval Attaché made a trou- of the loss of I-52. In the mid-1990s the vast majority of documentation bled assessment to Tokyo on 11 August. The attaché declared that cited in this essay, especially in Record Group 38, was declassified (i)n addition to our former loss of contact with the SATSUKI [cov- and made available to researchers in the National Archives. The er name for the RO-501, which was sunk on 13 May 1944 in the rich archival material sheds new light in the reconstruction of the Atlantic] and the recent report of the loss of the MATSU [cover events surrounding the sinking. Perhaps more significantly, the name for the I-29, which sailed safely from Lorient to Singapore, links between radio intelligence and operations are demonstrated but was sunk between Singapore and Kure on 26 July 1994], we in this case study of wartime intelligence and its detailed role in the have still failed to receive word from the GINMATSU [I-52]. The destruction of I-52. disaster which has befallen these liaison submarines one after another, at a time when they were playing such an important Footnotes referenced in this article have been omitted with role in transportation between Japan and Germany, is indeed permission of the author. Those interested in obtaining a copy an extremely regrettable loss to both countries.47 may do so by contacting the American Submariner editor at The matter was crucial and the Japanese in Berlin planned to [email protected] “enter into negotiations with the Germans and press them to 417-243-2117 | | | | 16 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 17 The parents were as interested as the kids in the details of under- way submarine life. Sharing the life we took for granted as we lived it Kaps(SS) 4 Kids(SS) brought forth many ooh’s and aahs. It was a memorable day for kids, parents, and SubVets alike! Year in Review 2019

Carolina Piedmont Base K4K Team Visits Thanks to all North Carolina Camp for Kids those who took the time in 2019 The members of Carolina Piedmont Base are especially proud of to help brighten their most recent visit to Victory Junction Gang Camp in the foothills of a sick child's day Randleman, North Carolina near Greensboro. This was the twenty- by participating seventh visit to the camp and marked the 10th anniversary visiting the in the USSVI camp in support of USSVI's Kap(SS) 4 Kids(SS) program. The Albany-Saratoga Base K4K Team (l-r) Senior Vice Commander Bill Preece, Base Commander Jerome Whitehead, Stephen Cipperly Kap(SS) 4 Kids(SS) The K4K team presented seventy-eight beaming kids with Honorary program! Submariner Certificates and K4K ball caps. and Ron Barrett with camp staff members. Victory Junction was established in honor of professional racing PC Stryker Base Donates Kids Cars to Local Hospital driver Adam Petty who lost his life in a racing accident in 2000. The JohnJohn Riley 84-acre camp property was donated by NASCAR great Richard Petty, National Chairman In November, the PC Stryker Jr Base Kap(SS) 4 Kid(SS) Team Adam’s grandfather. It has been serving children with serious medical Kap(SS) 4 Kids(SS) presented The Children's Hospital of San Antonio with two battery- Program conditions since 2004 by providing fun, challenging, and life-changing powered cars for kids. camping experiences at no cost to children or their families. The cars were quickly put into use, allowing the kids to “drive” themselves to surgery. According to the surgical staff, the activity boosts the morale of the patient and helps relieve their anxiety. The Stryker Base and Hill Country Bubbleheads provided the funds to purchase the cars. The vehicles offer an authentic driving experi- ence with forward, backward, left, right and stop controls. Both cars have decals of the Stryker Base logo on one side and the USSVI logo on the other. The 120-bed Children's Hospital of San Antonio provides advanced medical services to more than 150,000 children across Southern Tex- as each year. The hospital provides a number of specialized programs to suit the individual needs of its patients and their families.

The Carolina Piedmont K4K Team (l-r) NJVC Steve Bell, Base Commander Rick Pettit, K4K Chairman Jack Jeffries and Joel Tuchfeld take a photo with a Victory Junction staff member on the tenth-anniversary visit to Double H Ranch. Central Texas Base Conducts “Clean Sweep” of Texas Hospital

Albany-Saratoga K4K Team Makes On November 12, 2019, team members of the Central Texas 10th Anniversary Visit to Double H Ranch Base Kap(SS) 4 Kid(SS) team visited the McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple, Texas. The team consisted of longtime Chairman In October, the Albany-Saratoga K4K Team comprised of Jerome Bill Strawser, Shawn O’Shea, Frank Abernathy, Base Chaplain Bob Whitehead, Stephen Cipperly, Ron Barrett, and Bill Preece visited the Steinman, and Base Commander, Rick Mitchell. Hole in the Wall Gang Camp-inspired “Double H Ranch.” The ranch is This visit, as in all of our visits, was considered a “clean sweep,” located in Lake Luzerne, New York, and provides specialized programs as each child was awarded an Honorary Submariner Certificate, in and year-round support for children and their families dealing with addition to receiving a ball cap and small toy. Most importantly, they life-threatening illnesses. All programs are free of charge and capture all had a smile on their face. the magic of the Adirondacks. Bill Strawser has done an outstanding job heading our base’s K4K Surprisingly, the first child we met had a father who was a submari- program and has arranged for many visits over the years, both at ner back in the early ‘90s! He was very interested in how a submarine McLane Children's, and at the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin. worked, where we would sleep, and any other information he could Bill will be stepping down in the near future to pursue other gather to share with his father, who was unable to attend. The high point activities. He has done an exceptional job and one that is greatly of the day was the look on his face as he received his Submariner Cer- appreciated by all of us at Central Texas Base. His efforts have bene- tificate (although his was probably earned a little easier than dad’s). fited numerous kids and their families. Shawn O’Shea will be replac- Our LEGO submarine model was a big hit, as were the videos and ing him and we expect that he will continue to do just as great a job. Honorary Submariner Certificates, ball caps, and smiles all around! pictures of submarines in action. McLane Children’s Hospital – Temple is part of Baylor Scott & Central Texas K4K Team members (l-r) Base Commander Rick Mitchell, The delight on the kid’s faces as they received their Honorary White Medical Center. It is a state-of-the-art facility with highly- Chaplain Bob Steinman, K4K Chairman Shawn O’Shea, Fran Abernathy, Submariner Certificates, challenge coins, and ball caps was contagious. Ready for a test drive! PC Stryker Jr Base Commander Tom Wilson, skilled practitioners in 40 pediatric specialties, including hema- and Bill Strawser take a photo with two newly-recognized honorary It was hard to determine who was more excited, the kids or the SubVets! Base K4K Chairman Ralph Van Lieu and hospital staff members watch tology/oncology, pulmonology, gastroenterolgy, and cardiology. The submariners and hospital staff at McLane Children's Medical Center Our visit, which was to be for one hour, turned out to be more than as patients prepare to take a spin in the newly-donated Mercedes Center focuses on family-centered care that places the family at the in Temple, Texas. three, and the kids asked if we would stay and eat with them. S-class and G-class children's electric cars. center of the child’s health care team. | || | | 18 American Submariner FirstFirst QuarterQuarter 20202020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 19 permit continuous operation of the boat while repairs are underway. The CO was notified of this unfortunate development at once. He When it came to submarine cooling onboard Dace, there were decided to turn around and head for Puerto Rico; he wasn’t too keen three independent air conditioning systems: One Carrier lithium- about arriving in a foreign port at Curacao as the commanding officer bromide (LithBro) air conditioner and two York R-12 chillers (#1 and of a disabled nuclear submarine. So, even though Dace was only #2). The LithBro created cold air by flash-boiling water inside a about two hours from making port at Curacao, she turned around vacuum at low temperatures; the lithium bromide was added to the and headed back NNE toward Roosevelt Roads (“Rosie Roads”), the process to absorb the water vapor and maintain the vacuum so American Naval Base along the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. To that the chilling process could continue. make port at Rosie Roads would take longer than 12-16 hours since The R-12 chillers relied on the intake of cold seawater surrounding the base was still more than 300 nautical miles away. Sometime the submarine. These units utilized refrigerants that were converted during this traversal of the southern Caribbean Sea, the calendar from liquid to gas phase in evaporators and then reversed from gas moved forward to 3 September. to liquid phase in compressors. This heat pump cycle, still commonly The ambient temperatures inside the various compartments of used today, heated the refrigerant coils on the compressor side and the submerged Dace began to rise to uncomfortable but survivable chilled them on the evaporator side; fans positioned across these levels. Then, the unthinkable happened: the sole remaining A/C plant, cold coils then circulated the cooler and dehumidified air throughout the #2 R-12, couldn’t handle the increased electrical demand, and Death Run ’79: the submarine. On the other side, the cold seawater was needed its circuit breakers started to trip. Every time the power to #2 was to carry off the heat generated at the compressor end. If you can interrupted, it took several minutes for the crew to manually restore One Submarine’s Story of Hellish Heat and Hurricanes and How a Sister Submarine Rushed to Her Aid visualize a window-mounted air conditioning unit, then you have it, and this cycle kept repeating itself during the day. Meanwhile, a good idea of how the R-12 system worked. Whatever the method, temperatures soared to unbearable levels, as Dace had little to no by Charles G. Hood it’s important to realize that “cooling” is simply the process of means of cooling itself off. A real medical crisis emerged, as interior removing the heat from one space and discharging it into another— temperatures exceeded 150°F and in some locations like the engine in our case, the surrounding ocean. room up to 185°F. The air conditioning equipment on USS Dace (SSN-607) was ocean where submarines often operate, the sunlight fails to reach, Now let’s pick up our story. Dace made a temporary port in the Normally, the best course of action for such a crisis would have already on borrowed time in the summer of 1979. Most submarines and the sea temperatures can easily drop into the single digits West Indies, arriving at the harbor at St. Johns in Antigua around been to surface, open up the hatches, and discharge the interior in the U.S. fleet were built to last about a quarter-century in (Celsius). Based on this information, you might think that a submarine 30 August 1979. The anticipated Panama Canal passage en route heat. Since Dace was right in the middle of Hurricane Alley, Mother service; Dace, a Permit-class submarine christened in 1962, was would be always on the brink of freezing over. But you’d be wrong. to California would have to wait a bit for the weather to improve. Nature cruelly withdrew that option. By that time, Frederic was on a liberty cruise for a scheduled SUBSAFE equipment overhaul Working against this gradient on a normally operating submarine Schedules were fluid for all Navy ships in the Caribbean Basin because well within striking distance, and the intense wave and wind action when it entered the Caribbean Sea at the end of August. It was due are two categories of heat sources that tend to increase the ambient of uncertainty about the tracks of not one, but two hurricanes— precluded any attempt at surfacing. The massive tropical storm to arrive in a few days at Mare Island for the needed repairs, and the temperature: Equipment-generated heat, and human-generated David and Frederic—arriving one after the other, and wreaking havoc also churned up the ocean so thoroughly that the usual layer of officers and crew were expecting an uneventful journey through heat. First, think about all of the men on an attack submarine—over on the region for more than a week. Hurricane David, a Category 5 cold water found in deeper environments was also disrupted. Dace the Panama Canal and then on up to San Francisco Bay. 100 bodies, generating enormous heat at all times to maintain body storm for part of its lifespan, had struck the islands of Martinique and found this out the hard way after the CO ordered a deep dive. The That’s when fate decided to deal the men of Dace a bad hand. temperature. Next, add in the other much more significant contributor: Dominica on the day before Dace arrived at Antigua. It then passed idea was to facilitate passive cooling of the sub by immersing itself Through an unlikely convergence of equipment failure and natural all of the heat created from the operation of steam generators, motors, just south of Puerto Rico to make landfall at the Dominican Republic in colder water, but the effort was to no avail because of this mixing disaster, Dace was placed in a situation of great peril. Fortunately, galley equipment, batteries, lights, computers and everything else on 31 August. Only five days later, Frederic arrived into the same re- phenomenon caused by Frederic. the story had a happy ending, but not before the crew was subjected that depends on an electrical source to operate. gion from its Atlantic origin, following David’s tracks closely through As a result, there was no way to obtain immediate relief from the to smothering heat. Simply put, a submarine is an enclosed metallic tube that is con- the Caribbean as a looming Category 4 storm. Suffice it to say, the intense heat and humidity. Dace made heavy knots to Puerto Rico in Before we begin, keep in mind that this story was written primarily stantly generating heat for propulsion. The steam of the engine room sea conditions were poor over a widespread area for several days. the hopes of arrival before everyone had succumbed to hyperthermia. for the benefit of the kids/grandkids/family members of the men alone is a massive heat-maker. Sure, some of the heat may be radiat- Dace remained tied up at the pier at St. Johns for a couple of days People on board recalled sweating so profusely that “if you stood in aboard Dace (and the submarine that came to its aid) as well as ed through the outer hull into the cold seawater, but that process is while Hurricane David passed to the west. While Dace was still in the one spot for more than a minute, you left a puddle where you stood.” anyone interested in submarine history. As a result, some of the only a fraction of what is needed to maintain a healthy and constant harbor, the CW (chilled water) pump for the LithBro seized up and The crew’s mess became a temporary emergency room, as the language choices are intended to bridge this “jargon divide” temperature inside the pressure hull. died. Repair work on the LithBro pump was begun, but supply chains corpsman and volunteers scrambled to start IVs and push fluids on between military and civilian audiences, so that everyone can In other words, when you add up the equipment and human heat were interrupted by the storms and needed parts for the aging unit many weakened crew members. The watch rotations in the engine comprehend the big picture. In so doing, we run the risk of offending production, it far exceeds the cooling effect that operating at 400 could not be obtained in short order. room, where many of the initial casualties occurred, lasted only 15 veteran submariners who may find the narrative incomplete, feet underwater provides. That means, for a submarine to remain Once sea conditions improved—after David but before Frederic— minutes. Staying in that sauna for any longer was simply not possible. oversimplified, or both. That is certainly not our intention, and our submerged and have its men work and breathe in a comfortable the captain (CO) of Dace decided to shove off in the early morning Perhaps through divine providence, Dace received a short respite apologies are offered in advance. As a working document in environment, a reliable air-conditioning system is essential. of 2 September for the next port of call at Curacao. (Curacao is one from the furnace-like conditions when it was caught up in the eye of progress, any suggestions for how to improve the story will be Air conditioning not only cools the air but also dehumidifies it. of the “ABC” islands along with Aruba and Bonaire, off the northern Hurricane Frederic in the late afternoon of 3 September. At that time, most welcome. By reducing the water vapor content of air, air conditioning prevents coast of Venezuela.) That left the LithBro on the blink, meaning Dace Frederic was starting to disorganize on the heels of David. It was At the heart of this submarine tale—jargon and all—reverberates excessive moisture from accumulating on work surfaces, reduces would have to rely solely on the two R-12s to maintain temperature spinning at sea approximately 180 miles ESE of Puerto Rico at the a deep and fundamental human story. It’s a study of poise under trip hazards, inhibits corrosion on the pressure hull, and prevents and humidity levels. During the maneuvering watch, on the way out time. For a few glorious minutes, despite heavy seas, some discharge tremendous pressure, courage in the face of uncertain odds, and the muggy working conditions that can make everyone on board miserable. to sea, the seas were churning violently in advance of Frederic’s of the intense heat within the pressure hull into the surrounding air unshakable bond of brotherhood among submariners that compels A heat pump sucks water vapor out of the air like a sponge on a arrival—an omen of what was to come. Once Dace dove, she found a was allowed to occur. However, the short window of opportunity them to come to one another’s rescue time after time. (For perhaps kitchen spill. The physics are quite interesting but beyond our scope. calm depth for travel, a refuge from the inclement weather occurring closed rapidly as the eyewall approached, and Dace was forced the ultimate example of this tie, read the inspiring narrative in our first The redundancy of operation is a quintessential part of modern at the ocean surface. to dive once again, even though the temperatures were still nearly book, Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots, about the rescue of the dis- submarine design. In short, you always need fail-safes in your operat- While en route to Curacao, a little over 500 nautical miles from unbearable. Although the time surfaced was only a few minutes, abled USS Cochino (SS-345) by the members of USS Tusk (SS-426) in ing systems. If the primary system fails, then the backup system can Antigua, a troublesome mechanical seal for the #1 R-12 CW/SW that brief stroke of good luck may have made the difference in the 1949.) It is through this last attribute of the submarine fleet that we be tapped to come online right away without interruption in function- (chilled water/seawater) pump started leaking again. The leaks had final leg of the trip back to Rosie Roads. can gain a glimpse of the noble ideals that drive these volunteers of ality. Such redundancies are especially critical on a nuclear submarine been a known issue for some time, but they were intermittent and While this crisis was unfolding onboard Dace, USS Seahorse the Silent Service: honor, service, country, and the inviolate concept operating many feet underwater and hundreds of miles from a port or quickly repaired; everyone thought that the system could be kept (SSN-669) was nearby. Seahorse was supposed to be heading to St. of “no man left behind.” possible rescue. That’s why a submarine carries two scrubbers—if alive until Dace made it to Mare Island. Unfortunately, this time the Croix to conduct tests at the nearby underwater tracking range, Let’s start with a basic understanding of how submarines maintain one goes down, the other keeps running to eliminate carbon dioxide water from the leak shorted out the pressure switches controlling but Hurricane David had partially destroyed the pier there. Submarine a comfortable temperature onboard. Regardless of where a submarine buildup while the A-gang repairs the broken unit. Batteries back the pump; as a result, #1 went down. Dace was down to only one A/C Command (COMSUBLANT) instead diverted Seahorse to sea in goes—anywhere from the Arctic Circle to the Persian Gulf—the up the nuclear power plant and an additional diesel backup is also plant, which by itself could not meet the refrigeration/dehumidification advance of Hurricane Frederic’s approach upon Puerto Rico. During water surface temperatures vary enormously. However, in the deep available. These are just two of many examples of redundancy that needs of the entire sub. the storm, Seahorse was submerged at several hundred feet and | | | | 20 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 21 rigged for heavy weather when orders were given to proceed to subject vary, and in the personal recollections of one of the nuclear the Dace CO did not authorize any swim call for them. For a lot of periscope depth. The power of the storm became immediately engineers aboard Seahorse that day—and a key player in the rescue the men on both boats who recall that day, the swim call disparity— apparent from about 200 feet on up to periscope depth (60 feet). efforts—Seahorse did not provide shore power. Even though most of one boat permitted, the other not—left a lasting impression for the Seahorse was buffeted around violently, and everyone held on the island was without electrical power, Frederic had not knocked out rest of their careers. for dear life. Anything not bolted down was thrown about; the mess the shore power at Rosie Roads, as he recalls. So, when Dace arrived, That same day, Tropical Storm Frederic—by then downgraded NEW SUBSCRIBERS INVITED! decks were in shambles. There was no way to proceed safely to it immediately hooked up to shore power, allowing it to commence (temporarily) from hurricane status—struck the southern coast of EMAIL [email protected] the surface and stay there, but during this maneuver, Seahorse was reactor shutdown. But—and this is an important detail—Dace still Puerto Rico relatively weakly on its way north. It would subsequently able to establish radio contact with Dace. Both the CO and XO needed the help provided by Seahorse to shut down anyway. reintensify to a Category 4 storm and strike the Alabama Gulf Coast for a free bi-weekly e-newsletter (executive officer) were in the Radio Room at the time, and that’s Since there was only one shore power bunker on the pier (in use a week later. Fortunately for residents of Puerto Rico, Frederic’s when they found out about the plight of Dace. by Dace), Seahorse kept its reactor running critical while in port on winds were down to about 50 mph on arrival, and the storm track INTERESTING (NUCLEAR) TIMES The CO of Seahorse patched directly to his counterpart aboard this assistance mission. Several key personnel from Seahorse were carried it considerably west of the naval base at Rosie Roads so that Dace. Although the situation on Dace was dire, the skipper was sent over to stand watch. The extra manpower was needed because there was minimal additional impact. trying to convey a calm demeanor. However, there was a clear strain some of the ship’s company on Dace were sufficiently overcome by The repair work on Dace was time-consuming, taking nearly in his voice that the CO and other officers of Seahorse immediately the heat to require hospitalization were simply too dazed and weak- three weeks to complete. During that time, the crew had time to en- picked up on. They knew instinctively that Dace was in very serious ened to continue their regular watch duties. joy some much-needed R&R. The men were temporarily housed at BEDROCK TRUTHS SUPPORTING AMERICA’S DETERRENCE POSTURE trouble. After consultation with COMSUBLANT, the CO of Seahorse The previously mentioned engineer from Seahorse was one of barracks on Rosie Roads during the repair efforts, and rumor had it PEER-REVIEWED BY EXPERTS asked for permission to proceed directly to Rosie Roads, to rendez- the men sent over to help coordinate the reactor shutdown on Dace. that the beer trucks serving the base were working double time. The STRICTLY PRO BONO RESEARCH AND RIGOROUS vous with Dace and to assist her in any way possible. Permission was The CO of Dace informed him on his way inside that there was a men needed that time to decompress and put the incident into proper THOUGHT PIECES ASSURE OBJECTIVITY immediately granted, and as Seahorse raced toward Puerto Rico, steam leak in the piping for the secondary water loop of the reactor context. Fortunately, no one died, but 16 crew members did require also coming soon radio contact was maintained between the two captains. The stressed that needed attention. Although the reactor could be successfully hospitalization for treatment of heat exhaustion and heatstroke. A new 220-page Joe Buff ebook for sale on Amazon voice of the CO on Dace was weakening, but Seahorse offered shut down regardless of the leak, the problem would need to be Once Dace was finally ready to roll, she left Rosie Roads and ON 21st CENTURY NUCLEAR DETERRENCE – VOLUME 1 encouragement and hope as she cruised at flank speed. The com- addressed ASAP to prevent a larger issue from developing. 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The control panels in maneu- to the fairwater planes on each side of the sail. These were several vering—where the reactor, throttle, and electrical systems are feet higher than the deck, and although the spray from the turbulent overseen—were immediately familiar. However, some of the equip- ocean surface spilled over these planes, a few crew members were ment in the engine room—the main engines and the ship’s service lucky enough to ride out the watch by clipping their harnesses to turbine generator (SSTG)—were built by a different manufacturer Join the USSVI Boat Sponsorship Program the cables. (Westinghouse). 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Fortunately, though, The particulars of this process were quite complex, but this particular there was still electrical power at the pier at Rosie Roads. engineer was highly experienced and made it happen with no the USSVI National Office Dace arrived in advance of Frederic’s weakened assault on Puerto collateral problems. (The “engineer” of this story, Leo Falardeau, P.O. Box 3870 Rico late in the day on 3 September. She pulled into her mooring, and was an experienced EM1(SS) who later made CPO and then captain— Silverdale, WA 98398-3870 multiple first responders and several ambulances were waiting at enjoying a highly distinguished 41-year career in the Navy before Plunge! Indicate BSP and the name of the pier to bring the most seriously ill crew members out of Dace on recently retiring.) The propulsion plant was then cool enough to allow your boat or orgnization in the stretchers and whisk them away to the nearby naval hospital. The safe access to the leaky pipe for repair. The short-term mission memo field of your check firemen from Rosie Roads rigged several emergency ventilation was accomplished. trunks into the opened hatches of Dace to deliver fresh air, although The next morning, 4 September, the temporary watchstanders given the local climate it was only slightly less hot and humid. from Seahorse returned to their boat, since the briefly stricken men While the medical evacuation was ongoing, Seahorse arrived from Dace had received medical clearance to resume their duties.  about 30 minutes later and pulled up into a mooring on the opposite Dace wasn’t going anywhere soon, however. The weather deck was Reach potential new members by side of the pier from the Dace. The men of Seahorse then jumped cluttered with mattresses, clothing, and all kinds of clutter brought sending three annual into action, providing invaluable assistance to the incapacitated topside during evacuation the previous day. 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Washington, KY 40047 life that it has actually been occasionally assigned 118 E Ridgeview Dr. story of Forest’s (“Yeo” to his shipmates) personal Phone (502) 718-9344 reading for midshipmen at the Naval Academy. Bloomington, IN 47401 WWII adventures as yeoman aboard USS Wahoo [email protected] I ate this book up as a kid, of course, and it’s since www.hoosierwoodworks.com (SS-238), arguably the most famous and successful become an obvious favorite, reread frequently over (812) 325-9823 Tell them that I sent you! of America’s submarines at the time. Certainly she [email protected] the years. But that’s just the beginning. The more —Editor was a standard bearer, her daredevil skipper, Dudley Home: 928-636-9004 • Cell: 928-420-0061 [email protected] poignant aspect of experiencing Wake... comes in Wake of the Wahoo W. “Mush” Morton, having shown all those who 2480 West Gambels Ridge Drive Craftsman Roger Kugler, QM1(SS) understanding that Forest Sterling was the only By Forest Sterling followed exactly how the job was to be done. It is a Chino Valley, AZ 86323-8917 USSVI Member surviving member of Wahoo’s final crew, having ©1999 by Forest Sterling sea story of understated heroics, yet detailing every received an unexpected last-moment transfer before one of Wahoo’s historic wartime benchmarks: first to R.A. Cline Publishing the boat sailed from Midway on what would become successfully penetrate an enemy harbor and torpe- Placentia, California her Eternal Patrol. Days later, on October 11, 1943 do a ship therein; first (at least by some accounts) to ISBN: 0-9663235-2-1. she was lost with all hands while attempting to exit successfully execute the “down the throat” torpedo the Sea of Japan after several more successful 221 pages. shot; certainly first to wipe out an entire enemy con- attacks, the victim of accurate Japanese air and Trade paperback format. voy one-by-one in a string of stirring attacks. surface anti-submarine measures. And because of Yet all this this is told through the humble, $19.95 (original retail); this, Forest lived with “survivor guilt” till his dying unabashed first person voice of a common enlisted other editions available day in 2002. sailor who was on hand for all of it. Unlike similar I am not a religious man, but over the years SubmarineBooks.com submarine sagas which have taken either a stuffier I’ve come to believe that Forest was specifically or Amazon.com historical perspective or been told from the colder spared by Providence for the purpose of writing viewpoint of command—the Captain’s privileged this book. As a yeoman, he alone among the crew and/or technical remembrances only—Sterling’s had widespread, casual access to all the men, Everyman account remains uniquely his own: a records, activities and patrol information aboard down-to-earth retelling of his entire experience. the submarine—at all times and on both sides of It’s all in there: the infectious adrenaline rush of the sometimes exclusionary line denoting “Officer’s Country”—during Wahoo’s brief but colorful career. I’m convinced that only he could have truly done justice to this tale. And so he did. And it’s not to be missed. This most recent edition even features new photos, crew rosters, sinking credits, the Presidential Unit Citation, an author bio, a glossary and a revised epilogue not included in the first edition original. This newest version remains available directly from SubmarineBooks.com or online through Amazon. Check the online rare book sellers too (Alibris and others); sometimes the hardcover first edition or I was supremely lucky enough to finally meet and even Sterling’s own personally reprinted trade befriend Forest Sterling at a 2000 convention­ after a poignant cor­respondence. paperback version can be found out there for the real collectors among you.

| | | | 26 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 27 Boise Base Participates in Local Navy Week and Veterans Day Activities USSVI Academic Scholarship Program Currently Accepting Applications

The 30-member Boise Base has been busy of late, taking part in Both events were well-attended and provided area residents an The USSVI Charitable Fund Academic ly review and score each application after fall semester. local Boise area events. opportunity to learn more about naval history and its ties to Idaho. Scholarship Program is currently accepting the May 15 deadline. Applications are ranked All necessary information is available on In August, Navy Week returned to Boise, Idaho and the greater The Boise model has been in commission for 15 years and is a fre- applications from qualified descendants of by score, and the Board applies the annual the USSVI website Scholarship and Scholar- Treasure Valley area for the first time since 2016, allowing base mem- quent visitor to local schools to educate kids about submarines, and USSVI members in good standing. scholarship budget, awarding as many schol- ship Application page and may be accessed bers an opportunity to moor their one-sixteenth-inch scale model two years ago visited a record five schools in one day. The model is Members are encouraged to familiarize arships as possible. directly at http://bit.ly/2tp7zbR. USSe (SSN-764) Bois in front of the Idaho State Museum in down- also a familiar participant in parades and other events in the greater their children, grandchildren, or legal depen- The Charitable Foundation typically awards Feel free to contact me with any questions. town Boise. Boise area. dents with the scholarship program available 50 scholarships each year. Robert E. Frick Rear Adm. USN (SS), Retired Navy Weeks are coordinated by the Navy Office through USSVI and urge them to submit their All candidates will be sent a formal letter of Chairman of Community Outreach, and are designed to give application. Completed applications must be congratulations or regret. Awards will be pro- USSVI CF Academic Scholarship Program Americans the opportunity to learn about the Navy, submitted no later than May 15, 2020. The five- vided to the recipient’s college, university, or [email protected] its people, and its importance to national security and member Scholarship Board will independent- technical school student account before the prosperity. The Boise model was a popular exhibit and a big draw to the Navy Week presentations that took place inside the museum, with many visitors taking time to Heroes Among Us! view the Boise closeup. Base members were on hand by T Michael Bircumshaw to answer questions about the model or submarines. Veterans Day found the Boise model and her Virtually all of the submariners I know are and women started, and only 53 finished the Rick has owned several aircraft over the crew once again on station at the museum to my heroes. At the head of the group are the 99-day race. Rick completed the race riding years and flew around the country doing busi- answer visitor’s questions and tell of their experienc- WWII submariners, particularly those I sailed his favorite horse, a purebred Arabian named ness back in the days when he had his roofing es of life aboard submarines. Some visitors shared with, such as Vice Adm. Eli T. Reich, Rear Adm. Faraonson. company. He is an instrument and jet-type their own stories of the Farragut Naval Training Sta- Walter N. (Buck) Dietzen, Lt. Dale Barkley, and He is also the only person I know who is rated pilot. tion in northern Idaho, where 300,000 sailors trained USSVI founder Joe Negri plus the multitude a member of the Horse Town USA Hall of He is the only person I know who has com- in the early 1940s and the Idaho National Laboratory, of those whom I have met in SubVets. Fame, which establishes his credentials as a pleted every Los Angeles Marathon. The first where more than 40,000 Navy personnel received Among my heroes, one shipmate stands real deal “Cowboy.” You can read about him race in 1986 had 10,787 entrants with 7,602 training in the operation of propulsion plants of nu- Boise model and Commander Kristopher Lancaster, USS Boise commanding officer, and out for his continued accomplishments in by picking up a copy of The Great American crossing the finish line to become Legacy clear-powered ships. two crew members who were visiting Boise for Navy Week. many areas. He has achieved and done things Horse Race of 1976 by Curt Lewis. Runners. With the completion of the 34th L.A. that very few even attempted. Rick has raised and competed with pure- Marathon earlier this year, only 131 Legacy Here is a shortlist followed by some notes. bred Arabians for several decades and is still Runners remain, and Rick is one of them and 1. Qualified in submarines riding today. He was an American Horse Show nowhere near to calling it quits. 2. Completed the longest horse race Steward for 25 years and a director of the Rick has competed in and finished nearly in history American Endurance Ride Association and 100 marathons in the USA and internationally. 3.  Member of the Horse Town Hall of Fame the Arabian Horse Association. He has competed in and finished around 70 4. Has a fixed-wing pilot’s license At some point, Rick hammered his way triathlons and a half dozen or so Ironman com- 5.  One of only 131 remaining Los Angeles into the roofing business, owning a store, and petitions, starting with the Half-Ironman 70.3 Marathon “Legacy Runners” working on many projects throughout the U.S. Silverman in Henderson, Nevada, where he 6. A master carpenter was the oldest person ever to complete 7. Still plays racquetball the course in the allotted time. His name is Richard Bingham, and In 1991 he married his wife, Janie, and he is a life member of USSVI and both they live in their home and playground, the Scamp and Trieste Bases here in “Binghamland,” that Rick built in the Southern California. In 1957 he qualified mountains above Lake Elsinore, Califor- aboard USS Blenny (SS-324). He spent nia. He still has horses and rides near- the better part of 1958 aboard USS ly every day when he is not involved in Nautilus (SSN-571), and in 1959 became some USSVI event or parade. a USS Barbel (SS-580 plankowner. So, to wrap it up, Rick has proudly Rick left the submarine service as worn his Dolphins for 62 years, is a pilot, a QM3(SS) in 1960. Today he is just 19 a cowboy, a roofer, a grandpa, a runner, a years short of 100. According to the racer, a marathoner, an Ironman, a father, B-Girls Reunion Association (a group a husband, a racquetballer, a master representing the Barbel, Bonefish, and carpenter, and a contributing SubVet, as Blueback), Rick is the sole survivor of well as a great Shipmate. the three commissioning crews. If you I was running out of space on this page look Rick up on the Blenny sailing lists, and called it quits; Rick, as you can see, you will see him listed as “Velez.” You has not called it quits. Today, he contin- will have to ask him about that. ues to win racquetball tournaments in Rick is the only person I have ever his age group. known to have competed in the longest On a closing note, Rick has written horse race in history—a 1976 race from and published a synopsis of his life. It is Herkimer County, New York to Sacra- called Resilient by Richard Bingham. It is mento, California—a distance of nearly available on Amazon, and it covers much 2,200 miles. One hundred and three men more than I have here. | | | | 28 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 29 Pocono Base Joins State and Local Officials in Community Volunteers Plant Trees at Fresno State in honor of U.S. Submariners Dedicating Memorial Highway in Pennsylvania On Friday, October 11, more than 30 community volunteers gathered on the cam- pus of California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), to plant 48 trees at the Submarine Veterans Memorial located on the Maple Mall. The event is part of a Members of Pocono Base in Pennsylvania have had long-held dreams of naming a broader planting of 331 trees across campus in a beautification effort involving highway in their state honoring submariners past and present who sacrificed so much in students and members of the surrounding community. defense of our country. A Tolling the Boats ceremony was conducted afterward with University students On Monday, September 4, that dream was realized when members of Pocono, USS participating by reading the name of each submarine, its loss date, and details sur- Scranton, and Lehigh Vally Base joined with Pennsylvania State Representative Jack Rader rounding the loss. The oldest and youngest qualified submariner present then lead and other state and local officials to dedicate a six-and-a-half-mile section of State Route 115 in Monroe County as the a traditional cake-cutting. Closing remarks, Taps, and Amazing Grace concluded Submarine Veterans Memorial Highway. the ceremony. “It has been my honor to sponsor legislation naming this local highway in honor of the dedicated submarine veterans Established in 2002, Fresno State's Submarine Veterans Memorial was the first from our region who have selflessly served and sacrificed for our country and each and every one of us,” Rader said. such memorial honoring lost submarines and their crews to be located on a univer- “We owe them a debt of gratitude that can never be fully repaid.” Wahoo Base Past Commander Jim Van Vranken was sity campus. Seventeen years later, it retains the distinction of being the only known Robert Olbrecht and other base members had approached Representative Rader with the idea of permanently one of many submarine veterans onhand for the submarine memorial on a university campus west of the U.S. Naval Academy in honoring area submarine veterans by naming a portion of a state highway in honor of submariners past and present. Tolling the Boats ceremony after the tree planting. Annapolis, Maryland. Pocono Base is very active throughout Monroe County and attends many community functions, and Representative Rader was pleased to help make the highway naming a reality. “I was honored to work with Robert Obrecht and members of Pocono Base to sponsor legislation making this WWII Submarine Veterans Honored at Kings Bay Ceremony designation on the portion of Route 115 from Long Pond Road in Tunkhannock Township Jonas Road to Chestnuthill Township in Monroe County,” Rader said. On October 25, 2019, more than 450 sub- more than 3,500 sailors and their boats lost chief petty officers finished the day’s activi- marine veterans and family members, includ- during the war. The program also recognized ties. On Saturday, the Ohio-class USS Mary- ing 13 WWII veterans, gathered in St. Marys, the American peacetime losses, and the land (SSBN-738) was open for tours. In the Georgia for the 31st annual Submarine Veter- more than 31,000 British sailors lost on 83 evening, guests enjoyed a Low Country Boil ans of WWII Memorial ceremony. The obser- submarines sunk during the war. (a one-pot feast consisting of local seafood vance took place on Naval Submarine Base After the ceremony, Holland greeted each and other regional staples). Kings Bay, Georgia. of the WWII submarine veterans, who had The four-day event began on October Guest speaker Rear Adm. Michael Holland, traveled from Rhode Island, California, Indiana, 23 and was a collaborative effort between director of the programming division, N80 Of- Kentucky, Colorado and Florida to attend St. Marys Submarine Museum and the local fice of the Chief of Naval Operations, praised the event. Kings Bay Base of USSVI. the WWII veterans in the audience. Between The ceremony concluded with an invita- Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is home them, they served 20 war patrols, he said. tion to tour the Trident Training Facility and to six Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines Following Holland’s speech, a Tolling the a luncheon hosted by the base commander. and two Ohio-class guided-missile submarines. Boats ceremony took place honoring the A traditional steak dinner hosted by the base

Mission accomplished—Pocono Base submarine veterans gather with Pennsylvania State Representative Jack Rader (with plaque) and other local officials for a photo following the dedication of a portion of State Highway 115 as the Submarine Veterans Memorial Highway. USSVI Presents Author Dr. Charles Hood with Certificate of Appreciation

Dr. Charles Hood was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation Sharon to attend the meeting along with Charles’s wife, Anita, while and a plaque in recognition of the significant contributions made to managing to keep the award presentation a surprise. the USSVI Charitable Foundation through the sale of Poopie Suits Before the presentation, Kanning provided a summary outlining and Cowboy Boots, a book co-authored by Charles and his brother the significance of the book and its overwhelming success. Frank Hood. Southeast Regional Director Ken Nichols then made the presen- The award was approved by the USSVI Board of Directors and pro- tation on behalf of the Charitable Foundation. He stated that profits vided by the Charitable Foundation. It was presented during the from the sale of the book had been donated to the USSVI Scholarship September meeting of the Palmetto Base in Columbia, South Carolina. Fund and currently amount to more than $26,000. The presentation came as a complete surprise for Dr. Hood as he Awards Chairman John Stanford presented the guest of honor was only expecting to be acknowledged for his donations to the Char- with a Citizenship Patch. itable Foundation. “From the bottom of my heart, I thank each of you for this award Tarheel Base member and Past Regional Director Dick Kanning presentation. It was a complete surprise!″ Dr. Hood said, “While I have Recently promoted Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay chief petty officers take a photo with WWII submarine veterans during the Submarine worked closely with Charitable Foundation President John Mark- never served on a submarine, I share the common values of what the Veterans of WWII Memorial ceremony on Kings Bay. More than 450 submarine veterans and family members attended this year’s event, iewicz and USSVI Scholarship Chairman Robert Frick in the creation submarine force stands for, integrity, commitment, community work, including 13 WWII veterans. Submarine veterans (l-r): Cecil Burner, Thomas DePew, Archie Holte, Bob DeVore, Earl Justice, Pat Zilliacus, of the award. and reliability.″ Joe Dietz, Al Holt, Jim Campbell, Bob German, Tony Faella, Charlie Weller and WWII veterans Fred Klotzback (Army) and Mac Maurin (Navy). Dick was successful in getting Charles’s brother Frank and wife Dr. Hood is an Associate Member of USSVI and the Palmetto Base. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Xavier Saldana | | | | 30 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 31 Guidelines for Submitting Proposed Amendments to Iowa Submarine Veterans Celebrate Opening of Memorial Highway Constitution and Bylaws On Monday, October 14, submarine Administration building at the Iowa Veterans Home. 2020 is an election year for USSVI and a year in which our veterans from Iowa Base and Placoderm After the dedication, the submarine veterans departed for Des National Bylaws can be amended. Base formally dedicated a segment of a Moines traveling the memorial highway to the State Capitol grounds The section of the Constitution and Bylaws detailing how this central Iowa highway as the Submarine for a special ceremony honoring Iowa submarine veterans, which in- is accomplished is printed below. Veterans Memorial Highway. cluded Iowa Lieutenant Governor Adam Gregg and a submarine veter- This year your committee will be proposing some changes to The 52-mile section was created to an laying a wreath at the S-36 Submarine Memorial. clarify some areas in the document that was approved in 2018. increase public awareness of the history It is important to become familiar with the guidelines below if of submarines and the role they play you plan on submitting a proposed amendment. Amendments not today. The highway is symbolic in that it in accordance with the guidelines outlined below will be rejected. represents the 52 U.S. submarines lost Skip Turnbull during WWII. Chairman The Submarine Veterans Memorial Highway route begins at the Constitution and Bylaws Committee Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown and continues northeast up Highway 330 to Des Moines. ARTICLE XXII The highway is anchored at both ends by submarine memorials— Amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws the John Marino Memorial Submarine Library, located at the Iowa Section 1 Any Regular Member in good standing may submit Veterans Home on the southern end, and the S-36 Submarine proposed amendments to amend the Constitution and Bylaws Memorial in Des Moines, on the grounds of the State Capitol Building. by forwarding, either by the U.S. Postal Service or by email, the The well-attended dedication took place in front of the Sheeler proposed amendments to the Chairman of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee, postmarked on or before March 1st of the year in which they are to be considered. Does the Crew of USS Segundo (SS-398) Deserve Another Medal? Section 2 The Constitution and Bylaws Committee will submit by Bill Streifer to the National Board the Proposed Amendments approved by the Committee and by following the criteria as stated in the Con- Following the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo (AGER-2) on According to Berg, “When our transit was over, I heard some offi- stitution and Bylaws. January 23, 1968, in a desire to increase submarine posture in the Sea cers talking about Segundo getting depth charged and how she was Section 3 All Proposed Amendments approved by the Con- of Japan and the Yellow Sea to enhance U.S. surveillance capability lucky to have evaded.” They couldn’t surface, he said, since a North stitution and Bylaws Committee may be placed on the ballot and ready combat presence, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended Korean T43 with searchlights was scanning the surface of the water. following review and approval by the Board of Directors. Included deploying up to nine diesel and nuclear submarines into the Korean After the incident, Berg heard they headed to Sasebo, Japan for re- with each amendment will be a statement from the Board, stating area for surveillance and patrol “as early as practical.” pairs. “My friends, a lot of guys, were badly traumatized by the event. in twenty-five (25) words or less, why the Board is for or against In the end, however, the Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. One old-timer from WWII said it was the worst depth charge attack he the amendment. Also, on the ballot for each amendment will be Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) canceled the out-chop (release from had experienced. I heard they ruptured a fuel tank and suffered for- a statement, in twenty-five (25) words or less, from the author of current assignment) from the 7th Fleet of two submarines, Segundo ward decking damage.” (SS-398) and Volador (SS-490), deploying an additional four from Pearl Berg said the only award Volador received was the Expeditionary the Proposed Amendment, stating his/her reason for submitting Harbor: Flasher (SSN-613), Greenfish (SS-351), Blueback (SS-581), Medal (Korea). Segundo also received that same medal, but years lat- the Amendment. and Swordfish (SSN-579), as soon as possible, chopping to the er, many Segundo crewmen wanted to know why they have not been Section 4 The Constitution and Bylaws shall be amended by a Commander of the 7th Fleet no later than February 8. authorized the Combat Action Ribbon (CAR) and the Presidential Unit two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast in the National Election Swordfish, which had suffered damage when her masts struck a Citation. “That’s why it’s called the ‘Silent Service,’” Berg said. of the Organization, provided that the proposed changes have block of ice on March 2, 1968, later departed the Sea of Japan for Yo- Now, with the passage of 50-plus years, it is hoped that the few been placed on the National Ballot and provided to all members kosuka to undergo repairs. But the fate of Segundo, a WWII-era diesel surviving Segundo crewmen and their families can be honored with in good standing at their last known postal or email address. submarine, however, was far worse. When North Korean scuba divers the Combat Action Ribbon and the Presidential Unit Citation for their Section 5 So long as it is not specifically reserved to the mem- detected her presence (or sonar-equipped North Korean patrol boats, service to our country. Cdr. David A. Fudge, the commanding officer of bership, the Board of Directors may, at its discretion and by a two- depending on who you ask), Segundo descended to the bottom of the Segundo at the time, died in 2010. thirds (2/3) vote, alter, amend, add, delete, or otherwise change the sea for two days where she was bombarded with depth charges. Constitution and Bylaws of USSVI to comply with the Articles of I obtained the details of Segundo’s troubles from QM3(SS) Ed Incorporation, and/or any Federal or State law applying to 501(c) Berg, a former crew member aboard Segundo and later, during the (19) organizations. Pueblo incident, aboard Volador in addition to a first-hand account by MMC(SS) Russell Noragon, a member of the Segundo crew. Believing Section 6 Amendments that are passed will become effective his mission to Wonsan, North Korea was no longer classified, Noragon at the close of the Annual Business Meeting. explained to the local press in 2000 how the entire crew had nearly Section 7 Amendments submitted by the membership and died from their ordeal under the sea. passed shall remain in place for three (3) years from acceptance Noragon recalled “vividly” the headaches he and his 70 crew and may be changed by ballot in their fourth (4th) year. Should at mates suffered as their oxygen supply dwindled. Segundo, he said, any time in that period the amendment be deemed by the Board was detected soon after their arrival at Wonsan, so the sub descend- of Directors as not in the best interest of the Organization, they, ed to the bottom of the sea. He didn’t know the depth of the water, and only they may submit an amendment at the next balloting only the seriousness of the situation. He said some fresh oxygen was opportunity to change it without waiting the three (3) year period. bled in from reserve tanks but only enough to keep the air breathable. The result of that ballot will start a new three (3) year period. The seriousness of the situation became all too apparent when classified materials and equipment were readied for destruction. Section 8 No Amendment to the Constitution and Bylaws shall “I got nervous when the radiomen brought out all the cryptography appear on the Ballot without review and approval by the Board gear and the weighted bags and hammers,” he said. “I thought ‘Oh this of Directors. is not good!’” The air got so bad, Berg said, that bags of white powder were Patrolling North Korean waters after the Pueblo incident in early 1968, spread on the top bunks to absorb the carbon dioxide. 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| | | | 34 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 35 LOST BOATS Parades, Picnics, Pinning Ceremonies and More—Western District 4 Bases “I can assure you that they went down fighting and that their brothers Steam Full Speed Ahead into Fall who survived them took a grim toll of our savage enemy to avenge their deaths.” As summer drew to a close, the bases of Western District 4 (Oregon, A C A. L, USN Washington, and Alaska) remained active participating in parades, memorial ceremonies, and base-related events. Engaging in these activities with fellow base members is a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding experience. Rogue-Umpqua Base in Canyonville, Oregon, held its annual ceremony commemorating the 1942 bombing of southern Oregon by the Japanese CSC(SS) Ileene Davis and ITC(SS) Zaquavias Grissom are USS ARGONAUT (SS-166) USS AMBERJACK (SS-219) USS TRITON (SS-201) during WWII. A guest speaker shared details about Nobuo Fujita, a Japanese 105 men on board. 74 men on board. 74 men on board. joined by fellow Bremerton Base members at their CPO Lost on 10 January 1943 in the Java Sea by Lost on 16 February 1943 off Rabaul in the Lost due to Japanese destroyers off New Guinea pinning ceremony. The CPO pinning ceremony is a tradition pilot who dropped two incendiary bombs in the forest near the city of Brook- Japanese surface attack. Solomon Sea as a result of Japanese aerial on 15 March 1943. unique to the Navy, which dates to 1893 when the CPO ings on two different occasions. The event included tolling a ship’s bell in All hands lost. bombs and surface craft. All hands lost. paygrade was created. remembrance of submariners lost at sea with the U.S. Coast Guard dropping USS SWORDFISH (SS-193) All hands lost. USS F4 SKATE (SS-23) a wreath at sea as the event was taking place. 89 men on board. USS GRAYBACK (SS-208) 21 men on board. Bremerton Base held a pinning ceremony for three of its active-duty Lost by a possible Japanese surface attack or 80 men on board. Lost on 25 March 1915 when it foundered members recently advanced to chief petty officer. The ceremony for USS mine on 12 January 1945 off Okinawa. Lost on 27 February 1944 during a Japanese off Honolulu Harbor. Michigan (SSGN-727) crew members CSC(SS) Ileene Davis and ITC(SS) All hands lost. air and surface attack off Okinawa. All hands lost. Zaquavias Grissom took place at the USS Parche (SSN-683) sail, located in All hands lost. USS S-36 (SS-141) USS TULLIBEE (SS-284) front of the Puget Sound Naval Museum in downtown Bremerton. Several 43 men on board. USS TROUT (SS-202) 80 men on board. Lost on 20 January 1942 when she was destroyed 81 men on board. Lost 26 March 1944 north of Palau. Sunk by Bremerton Base members were in attendance to support their shipmates. after running aground on Taka Bakang Reef in Lost on 29 February 1944 during a Japanese her own torpedo. One man (Cliff Kuykendal), STSC(SS) Nicholas Kleiner is currently attached to a different command and Makassar Strait, Indonesia, near Makassar City. surface attack in the Philippine Sea. survived and was taken prisoner. recently transferred to Bremerton Base from Bowfin Base. Congratulations The crew was rescued. All hands lost. 79 men lost. to all three. No loss of life. USS PERCH (SS-176) USS TRIGGER (SS-237) New base officers were sworn in at the October meeting of the Yakima USS S-26 (SS-131) 60 men on board. 89 men on board. New Base officers (l-r) Ron Star, commander, Mark Briggs, Base. It was notable that each position had more than one nominee, at a 46 men on board. Scuttled on 3 March 1942 after suffering a Lost in the East China Sea on 28 March 1945 secretary, and Frederick West, vice commander are sworn in time when many bases struggle to get a single person to step up. Outgoing Lost on 24 January 1942 in the Gulf of Panama, heavy depth charge attack by Japanese during a Japanese air and surface attack. at Yakima Base meeting. Commander Joel Cooper opened the meeting, and after the swearing-in, 14 miles west of San Jose Light when she was warhips 30 miles NW of Surabaya, Java. Sixty All hands lost. new Commander Ron Star took over the meeting, which also marked the rammed by USS PC-460. Three men survived. men were taken prisoner, 52 survived the war. USS KETE (SS-369) 43 men lost. 8 men died as POWs. 87 men on board. twentieth anniversary of the base’s founding. USS SCORPION (SS-278) USS GRAMPUS (SS-207) Lost in March 1945 between Okinawa and Members of the Portland, Oregon Blueback Base have been on the 76 men on board. 71 men on board. Midway to unknown causes. move lately. Lost on 5 January 1944 by possible Japanese Lost due to Japanese surface attack in the All hands lost. In October, several members attended the christening ceremony for USS mine in the Yellow Sea off China. Balabac Straits near the Solomon Islands, Oregon (SSN-793) in Groton, Connecticut. The base had previously hosted All hands lost. probably on 5 March 1943. crew members when they came to visit Oregon. In another outing, a group All hands lost. Finally, we remember all the brave USS BARBEL (SS-316) of base members headed north to the WD4 picnic in St. Paul, Oregon, where 81 men on board. USS H-1 SEAWOLF (SS-28) submariners who died in the course Lost on 4 February 1945 during a Japanese air 25 men on board. of their duties aboard submarines, they captured the WD4 Traveling Dolphins from Bremerton Base. attack off the entrance to Palawan Passage. Lost on 12 March 1920 when it sank after being some individually and some in groups, Although the weather could have better, Seattle Base participated in the All hands lost. grounded off Santa Margarita Island, Baja but where the submarine itself was 54th annual Veterans Day Parade in Auburn, Washington. The event is adver- California, Mexico. USS SHARK (SS-174) not lost. A group of Blueback Base members visited Bremerton Base to tised as the largest Veterans Day parade west of the Mississippi, and with the 58 men on board. 4 men lost, including the C.O. while capture the Western District 4 Traveling Dolphins. event lasting more than two and a half hours, it is easy to believe that. Lost on 11 February 1942 when she attempting to swim ashore. was sunk by Japanese warships east of Manado in the Celebes Islands. All hands lost.

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| | | | 38 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 39 NEW MEMBERS Last Name First Name Qual. Boat Last Name First Name Qual. Boat Last Name First Name Qual. Boat Coyle James A. 1990 George Washington Carver Honeycutt Thomas J. 2015 Montpelier Wolyn George J. 1984 Silversides Last Name First Name Qual. Boat Felt Hamilton 2001 Georgia Phelps Travis A. 2017 Montpelier Adkins Eric V. 1993 Simon Bolivar Skates Jonathan 2011 Georgia Santiago Michael G. 2014 Montpelier French Guy 1980 Snook Knudsen Michael 1968 Abraham Lincoln Jennings Ralph 1980 Glenard P. Lipscomb Lawson III Thomas 1982 Narwhal Miller Robert 1983 Spadefish Burt Jarad A. 2001 Alabama Douglas William J. 1957 Grampus Patterson Jr. Paule W. 1981 Narwhal Bereznay Frank M. 1969 Spinax Considine Daniel V. 2013 Alabama Carmina Jr. Joseph A. 1981 Grayback Kingman James I. 1965 Nathan Hale Klick Mark S. 1978 Sturgeon Fincher N. Wayland 1985 Alabama Bard Marvin R. 1989 Greenling Klecha Carl G. 2012 Nebraska Pulawski Joseph 1971 Sunfish Hansen Charles H. 1988 Alaska Landry Gregory P. 1987 Greenling Gossard Luke 2005 Nevada Tylenda Michael 1984 Swordfish Hall Jr. Stuart 1977 Alexander Hamilton Chapman Richard K. 1971 Gudgeon Schnackenberg Eric J. 2012 New Hampshire Nadolski Michael J. 1970 Tang Thrasher Mack 1971 Alexander Hamilton Harmon Stephen C. 1969 Gudgeon Jones Daniel 1994 Norfolk Fern Bill 1987 Tecumseh Brady Edward 1962 Amberjack O'Brien James A. 1970 Halibut Pickering Lucas W. 2014 North Dakota Heintz Dwayne M. 1970 Tecumseh Frost William N. 1968 Amberjack Gordon Dennis 1973 Hammerhead Robinson Michael C. 2018 North Dakota Maniaci Ronald J. 1965 Tecumseh Bonnett David Edward 1971 Andrew Jackson Johnson Roy P. 1978 Hammerhead Gonser Arne 1983 Ohio Bistolas John G. 1960 Tench Camp Aaron 1959 Argonaut Perry Anthony M. 2015 Hampton Lucenti Robert 1988 Oklahoma City Blosser Scott A. 1988 Tennessee Merritt Keith 1984 Aspro Sederson Eugene 1973 Hawkbill Eyler Aaron 2016 Olympia Livingston Stephen 2013 Tennessee Stalker Jr. George H. 1954 Balao Pastor Jay 1970 Henry Clay Maher Daniel S. 2011 Olympia Reeser Michael A. 1977 Thomas Jefferson Harrison Rex 1969 Barb Gonzalez Juan 1994 Henry M. Jackson Bass Nicholas 2011 Pasadena Alanis Pedro A. 1967 Threadfin Legendre Kerry J. 1978 Barb Lambert Nicholas 2011 Henry M. Jackson Simon Vaughn 1969 Patrick Henry Maxwell John M. 1958 Threadfin Lerch Bob 1987 Barb Watkins Adrian D. 1995 Henry M. Jackson Jarrett Ryan C. 2001 Pennsylvania Farr Craig 1968 Tinosa Mason Edward L. 1975 Batfish Weirick Edmond A. 2004 Henry M. Jackson Whetzel Carl R. 2015 Pennsylvania Gallagher Terence J. 1983 Tinosa Nelson Arthur I. 1977 Baton Rouge Russ John K. 1990 Honolulu Hartley Darryl 2003 Philadelphia McKeon Brian J. 1980 Tinosa Kranz Sr. Robert Lee 1960 Becuna Lewis David W. 1984 Hyman G. Rickover Lacey Kyle D. 2001 Philadelphia Ahern William 1967 Tirante Gossett Leo M. 1973 Benjamin Franklin Nichols Gary 1984 Indianapolis Mjolsness Paul 1978 Philadelphia Cliber Matthew B. 2010 Toledo Nye Carl F. 1965 Blenny Richter David 1980 Jack Spelman Robin C. 1981 Phoenix Garcia Mitchell A. 2017 Toledo Blackadar Peter 1977 Bluefish Cornielle Jeffery A. 2002 Jacksonville Nicholas Troy A. 1967 Picuda Martin Andrew C. 2017 Toledo Carmine Joshua A. 2015 Boise Laughery Delbert 1982 Jacksonville Herod Jason P. 2001 Pittsburgh Alcantara Jason R. 2009 Topeka Merritt Trenton O. 2004 Bremerton McKenzie Matthew 2015 Jacksonville Hine Richard J. 1985 Pittsburgh Berube Norman L. J. 1959 Toro Tolentino Daniel 2015 Bremerton Young Arthur J. 2015 Jacksonville Piatt Jason 2013 Pittsburgh Montgomery James D. 1964 Trumpetfish Davis James Christopher 1970 Bugara Browning Robert 1972 James K. Polk Shonebarger Gerald J. 2001 Pittsburgh Boes Ben L. 2011 Tucson Harrah Jr. George Keener 1963 Carp Snyder Peter J. 1975 James K. Polk DeMond Eric B. 1986 Plunger Moore Zach E. 2009 Tucson Colletti Daniel J. 1971 Casimir Pulaski Fletcher Terrill 1971 James Madison Esquilingarcia Roberto 2014 Providence Edwards Kirt E. 1971 Tullibee Jacobs Durell M. 2017 Charlotte Woodson Rickie 1975 James Monroe Penning Michael 1993 Puffer McNeece Earnest Glen 1976 Tullibee Slayton Louie J. 1959 Charr Ivester Daniel J. 2014 Jimmy Carter Engelmann John 1960 Raton Brannon Thomas 1997 Tunny Pack Steven Joshua 2005 Cheyenne Wilkins Ron A. 1980 John Adams Baker S. Chris 1974 Ray Henke Radford P. 1963 Tunny Vanderson Bryant T. 2008 Chicago Perron Raymond A. 1967 John C. Calhoun Williams George W. 1969 Ray Ogden Stephen E. 1975 Tunny Stublarec Stephen M. 1983 City of Corpus Christi Smith Stuart A. 1991 John C. Calhoun Read Jr. C. Dean 1955 Razorback Salo Matthew A. 1989 Ulysses S. Grant Kubit Theodore W. 1963 Clamagore Yingling Thomas 1964 John C. Calhoun Allen John W. 1963 Redfish Visny James A. 1965 Ulysses S. Grant Omenson Kenneth W. 1967 Clamagore Chew Joseph G. 2018 John Warner McFadden Harvey D. 1975 Robert E. Lee Cummings Colson D. 2016 Virginia Staebler III Charles A. 1970 Clamagore Calhoun Kyle J. 1994 Kentucky Vignola Bruce Norman 1968 Robert E. Lee Johnson Jamie B. 2016 Virginia Grady Francis Dennis 1969 Cobbler Dempewolf James 2001 Kentucky Wambold Jr. Robert L. 1967 Robert E. Lee Worthington Lucas 2017 Virginia Yutzy Matt S. 2005 Columbia Prichard Greg 2001 Kentucky Goodwin Warren C. 1960 Sablefish Carter Alan 1968 Von Steuben Johnson Joshua M. 1998 Columbus Rodriguez Michael 2007 Key West Dillon William J. 1943 Sailfish/Squalus Heil John Jay 1970 Von Steuben O'Meara Thomas W. 1963 Croaker Clough Jason 2001 L. Mendel Rivers Pittman Lester S. 1967 Salmon Paramore Benjamin 1974 Wahoo Garcia David A. 1972 Dace Erwin Edward 1976 L. Mendel Rivers Ploss Donald B. 1970 Salmon Parker Jonathan D. 1995 West Virginia McCullough Richard 1966 Dace Neubauer Michael D. 1985 L. Mendel Rivers Story Calvin S. 1969 Salmon Forrest Harlan M. 1976 Whale Babins Peter 2000 Dallas Gustafson David B. 1971 Lafayette Tibbitts Jr. Donald 1975 Salmon Handy Stewart W. 1978 Whale Boyd Bradley M. 2007 Dallas Smith Gregg 1975 Lafayette Baker Eric M. 2001 Salt Lake City Craft Kristofer J. 2010 Wyoming Scheibner Clinton E. 2012 Dallas Pemble Charles 1985 Lapon Bickes Charles 1970 Sam Houston Woydziak Brian 2000 Wyoming Anderson Glen 1967 Daniel Boone McDermott Daniel 1999 Los Angeles Drown Fred E. 1971 Sam Houston Smith Camille Associate Balzer Mark 1983 Daniel Webster Rader Jason S. 1993 Los Angeles Woolley Robert N. 2012 San Francisco Baird Jeanette Associate Gillin Tom 1981 Daniel Webster Wissinger Joshua D. 1997 Louisiana Kinloch Alexander P. 2012 San Juan Berglowe Sven Associate Milliken Kurt R. 1972 Daniel Webster Bryant Samuel 2010 Louisville Nunez Bryan 2014 San Juan Cartland Marion Associate Hanton John P. 1974 Drum Viggiani Leonard A. 1999 Maine Harris Kyle G. 2019 Santa Fe Ellis Sandra B. Associate Claycamp Virgil 1970 Ethan Allen Beltran Brent C. 1981 Mariano G. Vallejo O'Connor Collin J. 2015 Santa Fe Fern Sue Associate Larson Herbert W. 1971 Ethan Allen Studer Coy 1985 Mariano G. Vallejo Williams Luke G. 2016 Santa Fe Gerew Marie Katherine Associate Cohen Eric Matthew 1983 Flasher Casalicchio Brando A. 2018 Maryland Lawrence Timothy 1978 Sea Devil Goodman James W. Associate Zborowski Ken J. 2012 Florida Finley Jacob 2016 Maryland Lies David L. 1986 Sea Devil Hood Charles Associate Farris Robert 1974 Flying Fish Gross Kenneth Edward 2002 Memphis Danko Andrew M. 1963 Sea Owl Huebner Kagen M. Associate Mauldin Ronald C. 1982 Flynig Fish Tsardakas James N. 1997 Memphis Peters Alan J. 1959 Sea Owl Knoell Joddy Associate LaPierre Dennis E. 1969 Gato Wickham Bradley S. 1986 Memphis Hutchinson Daniel Glenn 1983 Seahorse Law Particia Associate Malloch Wayne D. 1979 Gato Christiaens Cory A. 2010 Michigan Lang Kenneth 1983 Seawolf Miner Joan E. Associate Kerr William 1974 George Bancroft Bauer Brian W. 1987 Minneapolis-St. Paul McMaude Gordon 1959 Segundo Tunnell Linda Associate Molnar Peter 1970 George C. Marshall Evanchuck Kyle T. 2011 Mississippi Payne John 1969 Segundo Ritter John V. 1975 George Washington Burley Peter G. 2015 Missouri MacFarquhar James M. 1992 Silversides

| | | | 40 American Submariner First Quarter 2020 First Quarter 2020 American Submariner 41 UPCOMING BOAT REUNIONS

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USS Albacore was the U.S. Navy’s first submarine with a true underwater hull of cylindrical shape that has become the standard for today’s submarines. Commissioned in December 1953, the single-screw Albacore equipment and theories. In 1966 Albacore USS ALBACORE (AGSS-569) reconfigurations over her 19-year career, including was an experimentalan experimental submarine “X”-shaped and tailas suchfor increased carried no control, weapons. diving Her brakes, sole mission emergency was to escape test experimental systems, sonar submarine systems, a large auxiliary rudder in the after part of herattained sail, and an underwatercontra-rotating speed propellers. of nearly She 33 knots was decommissioned (38 mph), a record in atDecember the time. 1972 and today is preserved and open to the

public at the Port of Portsmouth Maritime Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Albacore underwent many modifications and It is our purpose to perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its Constitution. PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS) was established in June 1800, during the administration of President John Adams, and is the U.S. Navy’s oldest continuously operating shipyard. During WWI, the shipyard began building submarines, with L-8 in 1917 being the first ever built by a U.S. Navy yard. During WWII more than 70 submarines were constructed at PNS, with a record of four launched on the same day. When the war ended, the shipyard became the Navy’s center for submarine design and development. In 1953, revolutionized submarine design around the world with its teardrop hull and round cross-section. powered submarine built at the base, was launched in 1957. The last submarine built at the yard was in November 1969. PNS built 139 submarines over a 52-year period and today provides overhaul, refueling, and modernization work.

Swordfish Albacore (SSN-579), the first nuclear- (SS-569) November 2020 Sand Lance Dedicated to all U.S. submariners who (Five Submarines and 375 men lost) (SSN-660), launched Sunday 1 Monday manned our U.S. submarines—from the 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine commissioning of USS Holland (SS-1) Daylight Savings Time ends 5 Friday Saturday 8 6 9 Election Day 7 in 1900 through the newest nuclear 10 11 GROWLER (SS-215) 1944 12 15 13 ALBACORE (SS-218) 1944 submarines in the fleet. Submariners have 16 World War I ended 1918 14 17 Veteran’s Day 18 always performed a vital service to our CORVINA (SS-226) 1943 19 22 SCAMP (SS-277) 1944 20 23 21 nation. U.S. Submariners sank more than 24 25 SCULPIN (SS-191) 1943 26

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