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USS Scorpion (SSN 589)
Last week there were over 100 mentions of USS Scorpion (SSN 589) in the news . . .

Ed Offley - Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon
Journalist Ed Offley wants us to know that the official story of how the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) went down, that an unknown event caused the submarine to lose control and fall below crush depth with all hands on board, is a lie. ...

Listening to history
All Hands Down: the true story of the Soviet attack on the USS Scorpion by Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler. This is a timely addition to the collection, since we not only just celebrated Veteran's Day, but this tragic event occurred ...

Forgotten Heroes Slide Show
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uss howard - Historical Figures at Arlington National Cemetery
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) got underway on February 15, 1968 for a Mediterranean deployment. She operated with the 6th Fleet into May and then headed west to return home. On 21 May, she indicated her position to be about 50 miles south of . ...

USS Scorpion - Armchair General and HistoryNet >> The Best Forums ...
USS Scorpion Cold War. ... Robert Ballard secretly surveyed USS Scorpion in 1986 - to some degree - for the US Navy. He then was allowed to utilize the federally funded equipment to publicly search, locate, & survey Titanic. ...

Did We Really Win the Cold War Without Firing a Shot?
We believe the number should be much higher, and include operational losses such as the crew of 99 lost on the submarine USS Scorpion, lost at sea in May 1968. At numerous times during the Cold War, large losses were taken in ambiguous ...

uss scorpion || post-world war
a fictitious uss scorpion plays an important role in nevil shute's post-apocalyptic novel on the beach, though the film versions of the novel change the submarine's name (sawfish in the 1959 version, charleston in the 2000 remake). ...

Unravelling Submarine Controversy ... Interesting
A former USS Scorpion crew member phoned the Houston Chronicle in 1987. The call introduced Stephen Johnson to the controversial loss of SSN-589 with her 99 crew declared June 5, 1968. Johnson researched and wrote several stories about ...

uss george washington
george washington was originally named uss scorpion (ssn-589). during construction, she was lengthened by the insertion of a 130-foot-long missile section and renamed (another hull under construction at the time received both the older ...