Status Report August 27th
Bruce
Relatives of Crew: We still have 31 crew members for whom we have not found relatives. (See link to Lost Grunion Family Contacts, also in the links section on the right). I would encourage everybody to pick one at random and see if you can figure a way to locate a relative. As Viclkie and Rhonda will tell you if you are successful the emotional rewards are something you will remember the rest of your life.
Post Processing: Art and John are working on developing a 3d model of the target site. This is important to get the maximum information from the sonar shadow and is particularly significant here because the sub appears to be on the side of a very steep and irregular slope. That affects the shape of the shadow.
Japanese Ships Arare, SC 25 & 27, I-9: Art will produce two mosaics with target analysis of the areas off Kiska Harbor and Sirius Point.
If no-one has “adopted” John Clift Stewart, I would be happy to submit a SF-180, Request Pertaining to Military Records from the National Personnel Records Center and pursue research through the Kansas State Historical Society and my genealogist contacts there in search of his relatives.
Ms. Crawford,
Great! Thanks. Since Vickie has been working on Clift I told her about your post so you’ll probably be reading a post from her soon. She may have found something else that might help. Is this SF-180 a request for the service record or is it something else entirely? We can use any help finding these guys you want to provide! Feel free to contact me privately at rrrstarATwmconnectDOTcom replacing the AT and DOT with the respective symbols of course.
Everyone,
Yesterday Mr. Nobles sent me a newspaper clipping from 1995 written by the daughter of Carson Raymond for a newspaper in CT. It provided her married name and an outdated phone number-however it was a great lead and I was able to talk to her today. I wanted to say Thank you to Mr. Nobles and point out that many of you might have the odd article or other information colllected over the years that may help find the missing families. If you find anything that might be a lead feel free to post over to me- my address is in the post above just put Grunion in the subject line. Have a great day all!
Hello Melissa
My name is Vickie and “John Stewart CLIFT” is one of the families we are still looking for, your offer would be greatly appreciated. You can leave a message for me here or email me at svr5svr@aol.com. Thank you!