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Green Marine

August 18, 2006 · about 20 years ago

Lost submarine found off Alaska

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 wit

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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 — who were 5, 9 and 12 and lived in Newton, Mass., when their father disappeared — grew up and built their own lives. But they dwelt on the fate of their father.

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