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[color=#000000]After six decades, a submarine's fate may surface
By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff | August 17, 2006, The Boston Globe
There was no distress call, no indication of enemy depth charges exploding or bulkheads breached, just a dead silence that stretched from a few days into 60 years.
The USS Grunion disappeared in July 1942, leaving 70 American families grieving and the three sons of skipper Mannert L. ``Jim" Abele, without a father. Abele's boys -- ages 5, 9, and 12 and living in Newton when their father disappeared -- grew up and built their own lives. But, they dwelt on the fate of their father. At 2 a.m. yesterday, a grainy sonar picture e-mailed via satellite appeared in Bruce Abele's inbox, appearing to finally show what they had been searching for much of their adult lives]
By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff | August 17, 2006, The Boston Globe
There was no distress call, no indication of enemy depth charges exploding or bulkheads breached, just a dead silence that stretched from a few days into 60 years.
The USS Grunion disappeared in July 1942, leaving 70 American families grieving and the three sons of skipper Mannert L. ``Jim" Abele, without a father. Abele's boys -- ages 5, 9, and 12 and living in Newton when their father disappeared -- grew up and built their own lives. But, they dwelt on the fate of their father. At 2 a.m. yesterday, a grainy sonar picture e-mailed via satellite appeared in Bruce Abele's inbox, appearing to finally show what they had been searching for much of their adult lives]