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Milliner Weaver Thomas: Grunion XO (Executive Officer – second in command)

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Milliner Weaver Thomas was born on April 18, 1911 to Howard Barton and Halcyon M. Thomas, who resided in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 540 Washington Lane.
Milliner was their only child. His father was born in New York, his mother in Kansas. His father, Howard worked as chemist for a Pharmaceutical Company.
Photo:
http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/thomas-m-w.htm
Milliner’s family moved to Coatesville [...]

New London Sub Base - Grunion Launch Party

Please help us identify the people in this photo! It is the Grunion launch party at the New London Sub Base. Rhonda and everyone helping her have indentified 10 of the 60 people in the photo.
Click on the image for a larger view and please make a comment if you have any information [...]

Whitefish engineer returns from stormy Bering Sea with tale of discovery, By Richard Hanners Whitefish Pilot

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Whitefish engineer returns from stormy Bering Sea with tale of discovery
Posted: Wednesday, Sep 06, 2006 - 12:20:12 pm PDT
By RICHARD HANNERS Whitefish Pilot
http://www.whitefishpilot.com/articles/2006/09/06/news/news02.txt

When it left the Electric Boat Company shipyards in New London, Conn., on May 24, 1942, the USS Grunion belonged to a new era of submarines with all-welded hulls. The Gato-class subs [...]

Search for the Grunion September 18

Bruce:
Search for the Grunion September 18
Project Update

We have found a target that considering the length and certain other features appears to be the Japanese destroyer Arare. Remembering the contribution to this effort from Yutaka and Minoru one of our goals has always been to locate the Japanese ships that were sunk in that area. It [...]

Website Statistics update

The picture is of our stats from 9/11 to 9/17. It’s interesting to note, although the total visitors are declining, the pages per visitor is up at 3.91. Also, we have some European visitors this week and the distribution of “visits by source” is good, with a diverse group of referrers.
The total [...]