Bihn got a text message from his sister Katherine Taylor (no relation to Tim Taylor) two weeks ago, saying the Grayback had been found. Bihn said, they had engraved, “John Patrick King ‘Lost in Action.’” Bihn’s grandparents, Patrick and Catherine King, memorialized their son on their own headstone. “My mother would cry very often if you spoke to her about it.” But in his family, the subject of his uncle’s death was “too sad to ask about,” Mr. Bihn, who was born three years after the Grayback went down, remembers him as a constant presence in his maternal grandparents’ home, where a black-and-white photo of the submarine hung in the living room near a black frame holding Mr. His nephew John Bihn, of Wantagh, N.Y., is named after him. One of those names was John Patrick King. Taylor and his crew held a ceremony to remember the sailors lost aboard the ship and called out their names one by one. “But it’s also sobering, because we just found 80 men.” The next day, Mr. Taylor and the Lost 52 team decided to make a run at finding the Grayback. Submarine Losses, World War II.”Īrmed with the information in that book and Mr. Taylor his copy of the 1949 Navy history, “U.S. Taylor was introduced to Don Walsh, a former Navy submariner who, as a lieutenant in 1960, reached the deepest point of any ocean on Earth, in the Mariana Trench near Guam. Through his work in undersea exploration, Mr. Space Force: The fledgling military branch, which has frequently been the butt of jokes, dropped an official song extolling the force’s celestial mission.airstrikes, the Pentagon announced changes aimed at reducing risks to noncombatants in its military operations. Civilian Harm: Following reports of civilian deaths from U.S.high schools were accused of sexually abusing their students. Sexual Abuse: Pentagon officials acknowledged that they had failed to adequately supervise the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, after dozens of military veterans who taught in U.S.A Culture of Brutality: The Navy SEALs’ punishing selection course has come under new scrutiny after a sailor’s death exposed illicit drug use and other problems.But the Navy had unknowingly relied on a flawed translation of Japanese war records that got one digit wrong in the latitude and longitude of the spot where the Grayback had probably met its end. The Grayback was thought to have gone down in the open ocean 100 miles east-southeast of Okinawa. The history, issued in 1949, gave approximate locations of where each submarine had disappeared. By late March it was more than three weeks overdue to return, and the Navy listed the submarine as missing and presumed lost.Īfter the war, the Navy tried to piece together a comprehensive history of the 52 submarines it had lost. 28, 1944, when the Grayback, one of the most successful American submarines of World War II, sailed out of Pearl Harbor for its 10th combat patrol. It was hidden from discovery all this time by a single errant digit. A 75-year-old mystery has been solved, and the families of 80 American sailors lost at sea will now have closure: the U.S.S.
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