March 2021 Volume 22, Issue 03

Lest We Forget — Inside This Issue: Meeting minutes 2 “The USSVI Submariner’s Creed” Lost Boats 4

To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who Undersea Warfare Hist 4 gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while Harpoon missiles return 5 serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, Oddly shaped Grayback 6 and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of Allied vs. Russian boats 8 motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of Contact information 9 America and its Constitution. Application form 10

News Brief 1. Next Meeting: Restrictions on group gatherings related to Coronavirus have caused a temporary suspension of our monthly meetings. March 20 – VIRTUAL April 17 - PLAN FOR KSC, MASKS, SOCIAL DISTANCING, TAKE YOUR OWN LUNCH 2. Duty Cook Roster: a. GET READY TO VOLUNTEER WHEN OUR MEETINGS RESUME. 3. March Birthdays: Chris Gaines 13th; Tom Oker 17th; John Lindstedt 17th; and Richard Smiskol 26th. Happy Birthday Shipmates! 4. Crash Dive has a few openings where you can showcase your skills while serving your shipmates. Can you see yourself as our Chaplain, Community Outreach Chair, Membership Chair, Charitable Giving Chair, or Vice-Commander? Contact Clay Hill to step-up. 5. Give a little something that can mean a lot: A $2.50 contribution gets a cup of coffee-plus a message of encouragement-to a randomly selected, active duty service member. To donate: Go to https://GreenBeansCoffee.com ...then click on "Cup of Joe for a Joe.".

Crash Dive Meeting Minutes - Bret will attach February 20, 2021 newsletter to email  Membership – Chris Gaines 1. Call to Order@ 1108 - 22 from before, 2 added: 24 active total. - 5 postal lifetime a. The following were members, and 8 lost during the month of unconfirmed/unheard February: from USS Barbel (SS-316) 04 Feb 1945 - Phone tree to be USS Shark I (SS-174) 11 Feb 1942 explored at staff meeting USS (SS-219) 16 Feb 1943 - Any news on Larry? Amberjack Centerpieces, also? Still USS Grayback (SS-208) 27 Feb 1944 need info on both. USS Trout (SS-202) 29 Feb 1944 - Adding verbiage to notices to assist with 2. Attendance: hardships/technical 1) Frank Voznak challenges. 2) Bret Zacher - Zoom meetings can be 3) Chris Gaines connected to on 4) Scott Jaklin smartphone. 5) Manny Garmendez - Waived dues for 2021. 6) Dick Anderson Sent notice to members 7) Clay Hill paid in advance. 3. Reports: - Charlie Kruger? Phone a. Secretary’s Report disconnected at last - Admin ongoing, catching attempt. No info from up. Scott/Great Lakes Base. b. Treasurer’s Report[ABSENT], Obituary found Feb 2019, Report forwarded by Clay possible match. Wrong - Crash Dive Checking middle initial. 4223.29, 11073.69  Community Outreach – Bret - Memorial Checking Zacher 23582.51, Savings$5.00 - Turnover with Greg for - $5000.00 reserved for Vice Commander ongoing signage; Checks sent to - Liaison for Operation Chicago Base $9293.76, Drydock not withdrawn yet.  Hospitality – Bret Zacher c. Committee Reports - Larry has items in his  Newsletter – Chris Gaines basement. - Newsletter notice to be - Clay says KSC wants to sent when available on keep us there, if possible. website  Webmaster – Frank Voznak, - Latest edition uploaded Jr. today - No report Page 2 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

 Storekeeper – ABSENT  Roster UPDATED: 24 active + Herman Mueller (Eternal 5 lifetime members Patrol Medallions?) b. Cobia Drydocking - Ordering 5 new  Status of medallions Museum/AirBnB/Meeting  Procedures – Chris Gaines Space - Staff meeting before - Bret has info from turnover March TBD with Greg. Fundraising - Bret teaches custom efforts halted except background tutorial donations.  Eagle Scout – Ted Rotzoll - Clay will still attempt to ABSENT - No report reach museum staff.  Memorial Committee – Frank - Boat is open by appointment Voznak, Jr. due to COVID - Back in touch with  Alternative fundraising. Michelle Instead of donation box, - Adding plaque with start petition or letter writing “Clay’s Map”; placement campaign on waterfront or south o List of companies to side reach out to for - Michelle requests 3 charitable/PR quotes for signage, and opportunities may be willing to share o Len has info for cost GoFundMe alternative, - No design specifications please send to Bret yet, still in planning - Discuss at staff - Rededication ceremony meeting on 13 Mar before Memorial Day, if 21. possible 5. New Business - Veteran’s Day in a. Location of centerpieces: November, maybe better searching bin @ KSC deadline for ceremony? - Glen will contact Janelle to 4. Old (Unfinished) Business determine location a. Membership Dues 6. Good of the Order  Collections status: any - Great Lakes had first ZOOM stragglers/alibis/unspent meeting with help from rounds? Bret. - Addressed in - Explore bringing Membership report. centerpieces to USSVI  Emails/snail mail/phone convention in Orlando calls; checking health of a. Duty Cook – Not applicable members not in contact. b. 786 Club – “How to Join?” - Will explore at staff - Paragraph added to meeting. newsletter. Modest Page 3 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

initiation fee 200 + 100/yr  March 7, 1945 - USS Rock (SS-274) : At with reductions for the start of her 6th war patrol, she additional family picked up 15 merchant seamen, adrift in a 7. SOUND Klaxon life raft for 32 days, and landed a. Next Meeting is 20 March them at Exmouth. 2021 @ KSC unless  March 8, 1961 - USS Patrick Henry (SSBN- prevented from gathering 599) : When Patrick Henry surfaced off  Need to discuss logistics Holy Loch, Scotland, she had set a record (access, food, etc.) for her type, cruising submerged 66 days 8. Adjourn. 1207 and 22 hours.  March 11, 1945 | USS Segundo sank the cargo ship Shori Maru. Lost Boats  March 12, 1945 | USS Perch (SS-313) : Perch departed Fremantle on her 5th war USS Perch (SS 176) 3/3/42 patrol, carrying 11 Australian specialists USS Grampus (SS 207) 3/5/43 trained in commando warfare. In the USS H-1 (SS 28) 3/12/20 Makassar Straits, she contacted a coastal freighter. Using gunfire, Perch sank the USS Triton (SS 201) 3/15/43 freighter. USS Kete (SS 369) 3/20/45  March 13, 1945 | USS Crevalle (SS-291) : Crevalle put to sea on her 6th war patrol USS S-4 (SS 23) 3/25/15 from , HI. Cruising in the East USS Tullibee (SS 284) 3/26/44 Sea, she took up a lifeguard station USS Trigger (SS 237) 3/26/45 during air strikes preparing for the Okinawa invasion.  March 14, 1956 | USS Barbero (SS-317) : Undersea Warfare History Barbero fired her first “Regulus” successfully from a point off San  March 1, 1959 – USS Harder (SS-568) Clemente Island. Her second shot came Harder participated in SUBICEX during off equally well two weeks later. which she cruised 280 miles beneath the  March 15, 1945 | USS Spot (SS-413) : On ice packs off Newfoundland, further than the second night in her assigned patrol any conventionally powered area, Spot expended all torpedoes had previously gone. attacking a Japanese . Spot sank  March 4, 1944 - USS Tinosa (SS-283) : the passenger cargo ship, Nanking Maru, Tinosa ended her 5th war patrol at and damaged a freighter. The attack was Pearl Harbor, HI. made in heavy weather and shallow  March 5, 1966 - USS Capitaine (SS-336) : water. Transferred (loaned) to Italy, 5 March  March 16, 1944 | USS Silversides (SS 236) 1966, where she was recommissioned in sank the cargo ship Kofuku Maru. the Italian Navy as Alfredo Cappellini (S-  March 17, 1959 | USS Skate (SSN 578) 507). becomes the first submarine to surface  March 6, 1982 - USS Atlanta (SSN-712) : at the North Pole, traveling 3,000 miles Commissioned with CDR Robin J. White in in and under Arctic ice for more than a command. month.

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They’re Back: US Subs To continue to develop “ready, forward- deployed naval forces [which] will accept Carry Harpoon Ship- calculated tactical risks and adopt a more Killer Missiles assertive posture in our day-to-day Paul McLeary, Breaking Defense, February 10 operations.” The work began to pay off in the WASHINGTON: After a 25-year absence, fielding of the over-the-horizon Naval Strike the Navy will start packing Harpoon ship- Missile, made by a team made up of killer missiles on its attack submarines as the Raytheon and Norway-based Kongsberg. fleet looks for new ways to counter the The weapon, with a range of about 100 miles growing Chinese navy. (roughly comparable to the Harpoon), has The effort falls in line with a range of been deployed aboard the Littoral Combat programs the Pentagon is pursuing to Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords, and will develop ways to deploy more offensive punch become a mainstay aboard the Constellation- at longer ranges, a clear recognition of the class frigates which begin construction this growing ability of China and Russia to keep year. American and allied forces at a distance in The entire fleet of more than 30 any potential confrontation. Littoral Combat Ships will eventually be The Harpoon work was capped off equipped with the NSM, Navy CNO Adm. late last month when the Navy awarded Mike Gilday told Breaking Defense recently. Boeing a $10 million contract to arm Los “In today’s competitive space with Angeles-class attack subs with the new China, in particular, you need lethal systems Harpoons as soon as this year. The contract like the Naval Strike Missile on every single follows the successful test firing of a and every single LCS that we have. And so in Harpoon from the USS Olympia submarine order to and so, I do want those ships during the RIMPAC 2018 exercise off the deployed in numbers,” Gilday said. coast of , marking the first time the The Navy and Marine Corps are also missile had been fired from an American sub looking for ways to get the NSM fitted since 1997. aboard its amphibious ships, a move that The Pentagon has been working on advances the emerging plan to find ways to getting its ship-killing prowess back since the add more punch to the US fleet as China and Obama administration, when then-Defense Russia push their own long-range weapons Secretary Ash Carter launched the Third out to sea. Offset Strategy aimed at developing new “We have these magnificent 600- technologies, and repurposing old ones, to foot-long, highly survivable, highly LPD make the force more lethal, at moderate cost 17s,” Marine Maj. Gen. Tracy King, the — and to do it quickly. Navy’s director of expeditionary warfare, told The increased missile range also fits reporters last month. “The LPDs need the with the emerging Navy strategy which ability to reach out and defend themselves accepts the risk posed by precision weapons and sink another ship. It’s not from the and stand-off capabilty developed by China, aspect of using them as a strike platform; it in particular. A “tri-service” strategy released will drastically increase their survivability if by the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard in the enemy has to honor that threat.” December pointed out the plan is to Putting those missiles aboard large, amphibious ships also wielding F-35Bs is in Page 5 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL line with the Corps’ efforts to find a way to weapons were carried in a pair of huge cylindrical fire long-range anti-ship missiles from shore- hangars located above the bow. based ground vehicles to support the fleet The second submarine to carry the from dispersed locations. Last year, Raytheon name, the USS Grayback was launched on July was awarded $48 million to integrate the 2, 1957, and commissioned on March 7, 1958, as NSM into the Marine Corps’ force structure, SSG-574. Ultimately, the submarine was one of five equipped to launch the Regulus I that were in following a year-long study the Corps service by 1960. To launch the airplane-sized conducted, where it also considered missile, the submarine first had to surface, before Lockheed Martin’s new Long-Range Anti- the rear of the hangar was opened, and the Ship Missile and the Harpoon. Regulus I disgorged onto a trainable ramp that In December, the Navy also fired a was recessed into the top of the hull, forward of new version of the Cold War stalwart the sail. The ramp was then turned sideways, Tomahawk missile from the USS and the missile blasted off under the power of a Chafee, giving the surface fleet an expanded pair of solid-fuel rockets before the Allison J33 ability to target ships and land targets at turbojet kicked in. The missile had a range of greater range. The Black V Tomahawk is around 575 miles. expected to reach ranges in excess of 1,000 The USS Grayback made history as the miles with a new warhead that will carry a first submarine to carry Vought’s next-generation SSM-N-9 Regulus II and undertook trials with this bigger punch than older versions. Mach-2-capable weapon off the U.S. West Coast. Two of these weapons could be carried, The Oddly Shaped USS compared to four of the previous Regulus Is and Grayback Was A Cold War the first successful launch of the missile took place on September 16, 1958, while the Submarine Like No Other Grayback was operating out of Naval Base Thomas Newdick, The Warzone, February 10 Ventura County, California. However, the

Regulus II was canceled later the same year, by Few of the U.S. Navy’s post-World War II which point the concept of the submarine- submarines had such an unusual career as the launched cruise missile had been overtaken by USS Grayback. It went from carrying some of the the development of the Polaris submarine- United States’ first strategic missiles to stealthily launched ballistic missile, which promised much delivering naval special forces to the coast of greater range, speed, and reliability. North during the war in Southeast Asia. On February 9, 1959, the USS Grayback It was truly a fascinating and bizarrely-shaped departed Mare Island for Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, boat whose multiple lives underscored how she arriving at what would become its permanent was able to change along with a morphing Cold home base on March 7. Between September and War. Here's her story. November of 1959, the submarine completed the Laid down on July 1, 1954, at Mare first of nine deterrent missions, patrolling the Island Naval Shipyard in Bay, Pacific with an armament of Regulus I missiles. California, the first of the Grayback-class missile In the course of these patrols, the Grayback submarines was, like its sister, the USS Growler, spent more than 20 months at sea and logged built as a conventionally powered submarine that well over 130,000 miles. would have a primary armament of cruise The USS Grayback served in its strategic missiles. The pair were the first submarines to be missile role until it was decommissioned on May designed around an armament of subsonic 25, 1964, as the cruise-missile submarines Vought SSM-N-8 Regulus I strategic missiles. divested their deterrence duties to the new Four of these nuclear-armed, turbojet-powered Polaris boats. Page 6 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

A new lease of life then began when the From August 1968 the submarine’s USS Grayback was converted as a submarine designation was changed again, to LPSS, transport, initially under the pennant number indicating an amphibious transport submarine, APSS-574. The ability of submarines to transport and the new-look USS Grayback was personnel and materiel, as well as launch raiding commissioned for a second time on May 9, 1969. parties ashore, while using its inherent Thereafter, it was operated by the Pacific Fleet capabilities to help avoid detection, was well and based at Subic Bay in the . established by the end of World War II, and By the time of the Vietnam War, the would continue into the Cold War and beyond. It Navy was using specially configured submarines is a fascinating subset of underwater warfare that to support special operations, the USS Grayback you can read all about in this previous War Zone and the Gato class USS Tunny working along the article. coast of North Vietnam, and also helping gather The conversion work for the new role intelligence. was authorized in 1967 and was undertaken at The submarine’s most dramatic — and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard between secretive — mission took place in June 1972, November 1967 and May 1969. This included during the conflict in Southeast Asia. This was removing the Regulus equipment and Operation Thunderhead, an attempt to rescue lengthening the hull from 322 feet 4 inches to 334 U.S. prisoners of war that were planning to feet. Mess and sleeping quarters now provided escape from North Vietnam’s notorious “Hanoi accommodation for up to 67 troops. The missile Hilton” prison. The two PoWs, both aviators, hangars were converted to carry six swimmer planned to steal a boat and make their escape by delivery vehicles (SDVs) and a diver’s river to the Gulf of Tonkin, where they would be decompression chamber. The SDVs and scuba- picked up by elite troops from the U.S. Navy’s equipped divers could be launched and SEAL Team One, Platoon A, and Underwater recovered while the submarine submerged. The Demolition Team 11 (UDT-11). Exactly how height of the sail was increased by around 10 communications were run between PoWs and feet and a Sperry BQG-4 Passive Underwater rescuers while planning this daring mission has Fire Control Feasibility System (PUFFS) was not been explained. fitted. The USS Grayback departed Subic Bay The role of the “new” USS Grayback was to transport the special forces into the coastal carrying commando and other covert forces on waters off North Vietnam, where plans called for special missions against targets that required a one or more Mk 7 SDVs to be launched under stealthy approach from the sea. Members of the cover of darkness. Piloted by two operators from U.S. Navy’s SEAL teams and Naval Underwater UDT-11, each SDV would deliver four SEALs Demolition Teams (UDT) were certainly carried from Platoon A to an island at the mouth of the onboard the submarine, as were, in all likelihood, Red River, which flowed into the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. Army Green Berets. UDTs would be used The Grayback was on station around 4,000 yards for example, for undertaking reconnaissance of from the mouth of the river and at a depth of possible landing zones ahead of an amphibious around 65 feet. assault, or to clear the approaches to a beach. A first attempt to launch a As well as its amphibious role, the USS reconnaissance mission on June 3, 1972, ended Grayback could also perform similar duties as an in failure after the four-man team became lost, attack submarine, for which it was armed with the struggling with navigation errors and tidal thermal-powered Mk 14 anti-ship of currents that were much stronger than expected. World War II vintage and the electric-powered Mk Unable to relocate the USS Grayback, the team 37 anti-submarine torpedo. These were operated had to abandon their SDV after the vehicles’ using the Mk 106 Model 12 torpedo fire-control batteries ran out. After eight hours they were system. rescued by a helicopter around 10 miles south of Page 7 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL the submarine’s position and were then flown to for a second and final time at Subic Bay on June the nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS 16, 1984. Long Beach, which was stationed approximately Befitting a boat with a less-than- 15 miles offshore, serving as the command ship conventional history, the USS Grayback received for the mission. You can read all about that a bright orange paint scheme to increase its particular warship here. conspicuity before it was sunk as a target near Two days later, the team was to be Subic Bay on April 13, 1986. It brought to an end returned to the submarine by helicopter, with the the story of a unique submarine — a guided- aim of dropping them into the water alongside the missile pioneer and a covert amphibious USS Grayback, at night. Again, however, the transport with a harrowing Vietnam combat submarine proved hard to find. Once it seemed record. the infrared locator beacon had been found, the Today, the legacy of the little-known operators jumped from the helicopter, but the amphibious transport submarines is kept alive by chopper was flying too high and too fast for a the Navy’s four Ohio class nuclear-powered safe jump and was downwind, meaning the guided-missile submarines. They traded their jumpers hit the water with even much greater strategic nuclear missile armament and now velocity. Lieutenant Melvin “Spence” Dry was carry diverse cargoes ranging from Tomahawk killed immediately, and one other member of the cruise missiles to Navy SEALs. In this way, they team was seriously injured. continue the tradition of the USS Grayback, with Meanwhile, the USS Grayback had capabilities befitting the demands of 21st-century launched another SDV, but this mission was warfare. abandoned too after its crew ran out of air. The second team came to the surface and it was their The Navy and its allies have locator beacon that the first team had ships that 'do quite well' against inadvertently found. The two teams rendezvoused before both were picked up by Russia's newest subs, top US helicopter and returned to the USS Long Beach. admiral in Europe says After the United States began sowing mines in Christopher Woody, Business Insider, February 9 North Vietnamese ports and rivers, the chances of mission success were further reduced, and it The US and its NATO allies are was decided to abandon the PoW escape effort increasingly worried about Russia's altogether. improved submarine fleet, which can Operation Thunderhead remained sail quieter and longer, and, with new classified for many years and it was not until 2008 that Lieutenant Dry’s death was finally submarine-launched missiles, strike acknowledged as a combat loss, and he was farther. posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for Valor. That challenge is emerging as the From 1975 the USS Grayback was US Navy is still determining what its fleet reclassified yet again, this time as an attack will look like in the future, but in the submarine, or SS, for administrative reasons, to Atlantic, it isn't alone in the undersea ensure continued funding from the U.S. fight, according to Adm. Robert Burke, Congress for what was now a true niche capability. commander of US Naval Forces Europe. Exactly what, if any covert missions, the "What I'll say that we have USS Grayback was involved in during the years different in this theater, as opposed to that followed is not known, but the Navy my colleagues in the Indo-Pacific undoubtedly appreciated the submarine’s utility theater, is some extremely high-end and it remained in service until decommissioned capable allies and partners with navies Page 8 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL that ... operate just like the US Navy and Around that gap, the British navy operate with us every day," Burke said has been deploying and this month at an event hosted by the frigates alongside the US Navy, and the Center for Strategic and International Norwegian, Italian, French, and Spanish Studies. navies "have deployed effective frigates The UK and France are "two as well," Clark said. extremely reliable, extremely capable "Their most effective capabilities partners," Burke said, adding that are their variable-depth active , Canada and Norway "contribute which have surprisingly long range due significantly to the theater undersea to their low frequency and can warfare fight" and that Denmark is circumvent the quieting efforts Russia "expanding their capabilities." made in the Yasen class because [the Most of those countries have sonars] are active," Clark said, referring "significant" maritime patrol and to the newest class of Russian nuclear- reconnaissance aircraft, either the US- powered subs, to which Burke was also built P-8 Poseidon, widely regarded as likely referring. the best sub-hunting aircraft in service, As with anti-submarine warfare, or "a version closely resembling the P- the Navy's attention shifted away from 8's capabilities," Burke added. the GIUK Gap after the Cold War. As "Their surface combatants today tensions with Russia have risen over the are incredibly capable too," Burke said. past decade, that gateway has taken on "The surface combatants today, are, in renewed importance as a kind of "line in certain acoustic environments that the the sand," Clark previously told Insider. Atlantic presents, in geographic parts of the Atlantic, are allowing us to do quite North of the gap "is a very, very deep well against sixth-generation Russian basin of cold water, and it is ideal water submarines." for sound to propagate in ... so that I can hear a very quiet submarine, perhaps 'Science is on my side' better than most places in the world," Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain, Burke didn't mention a specific area, but told Insider in a December 2018 "geographic parts" likely refers to the interview. sea between Greenland, Iceland, and "Science is on my side" in that the UK, known as the GIUK Gap, deeper, colder water, said Hendrix, according to Bryan Clark, a naval- whose Navy experience included anti- warfare expert and senior fellow at the submarine warfare. Hudson Institute. Those conditions change in the That gap is a chokepoint between water around the islands in that gap, the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Ships and making tracking subs harder, "but if subs from Russia's powerful Northern you've got them before they get there, Fleet, based in the Arctic, must cross it before they get to that barrier, then to reach the Atlantic. Page 9 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL

you've got a good chance of staying on Russian subs reportedly top of them," Hendrix added. conducted a major exercise in late 2019, "Being able to control and do testing their ability to reach the North anti-submarine warfare north of the gap Atlantic without detection. US and NATO is going to increase your capability of navy ships conducted anti-submarine- tracking south of that gap," Hendrix warfare drills around Iceland in July, and said. "Geography matters in these the Navy conducted a similar exercise on cases." its own in the North Atlantic in September. 'No longer a sanctuary' Those US and NATO exercises reflect concern about what enemy subs US and NATO navies have pushed their roaming the Atlantic could do in a war. anti-submarine capabilities farther In previous conflicts, those subs north. US destroyers, the main surface primarily targeted shipping, but newer, anti-submarine-warfare platform, spent quieter Russian submarines with the much of late 2020 in the Barents Sea, ability to launch missiles deep inland often training with British and add a new threat. Norwegian warships. "It's pretty well known now that Russia sees the Barents as the our homeland is no longer a sanctuary, "bastion" for the ballistic-missile subs so we have to be prepared here to that are part of its nuclear second-strike conduct high-end combat operations in capability, making those waters local waters," Vice Adm. Daryl L. Caudle, "actually quite sensitive," Michael commander of Naval Submarine Forces, Kofman, director of the Russia Studies said during that September exercise. Program at nonprofit research group CNA, told Insider in November. Crash Dive Base Contact Information

Commander – Clayton Hill, 195 Clover Lane, Cedarburg, WI 53012; [email protected] Vice-Commander – Vacant. Secretary (POC) – Manny Garmendez, [email protected]; Treasurer – Glenn C. Barts, Sr., 2000 Jamestown Drive, Palatine, IL 60074; 847-934- 7418; [email protected] COB – Larry Warnke, [email protected] Chaplain – Vacant. Membership – Vacant. Storekeeper – Herman Mueller, 503 Lynn Terrace, Waukegan, IL 60085; 847-445- 5034; [email protected] Newsletter Editor – Chris Gaines, 513 West Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506; 630-892- 5718 or [email protected] Base Historian – Frank Voznak, Jr. 9 South 255 Madison, Burr Ridge, IL. 60527; 630 986-0175 [email protected]

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APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Regular  Life  Associate  OUR CREED: “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 & its Constitution.”

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