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Abele, Mannert Lincoln (Jim), LCDR.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Quincy, MA
Last Address USS Grunion in the north Pacific.
Remembered at the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Hawaii
Casualty Date Jul 30, 1942
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Lost At Sea-Unrecovered
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Buried at Sea - N/A, Pacific Ocean
Wall/Plot Coordinates Lost at sea with the USS Grunion in the Pacific.
On August 22, 2007, USS Grunion was found by the search team in the Bering Sea off the coast of the Aleutian Islands in about 1000 meters of water.
On the 23d of August the Search 07 team lead by John performed the first of two dives at a location based on data from last year?s sonar search. The goals were to:
Find last year?s target Confirm that it was the Grunion Determine what caused the sinking. The first two were accomplished. Although they did not find a plaque that says "USS Grunion" nor the numbers 216, the presence and style of the prop guards, the style of the conning tower arrangement, the fact that it was the only American sub lost in that area, and the precision of the predicted location are overwhelming evidence that it was the Grunion.
The third item, determining the cause of its demise, remains open. We plan to provide the images (3 1/2 hours of hi definition video and about 700 digital stills) to ex-submariners and others for analysis, but we may never know the exact cause.
John performed a small memorial ceremony with flowers from Kiska. In addition he collected seawater from above the site, which will be put into vials and sent to relatives. Toshi Mikagawa, the Japanese leader of the Oceaneering ROV crew performed a similar ceremony with Saki (he poured into the sea) for the sailors of the sunken Japanese ships.
