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 appears that we have made some progress in that direction.
Thanks to the efforts of Rhonda, Vickie and several news organizations we have now found relatives for 48 of the 70 men on the crew. That is about 69%. We have 22 to go.
Later this week the Today Show will be in Newton to do a piece on the Search for the Grunion to be aired in a few weeks. If possible I will try to post the date. Keep in touch. Among other things it may be an opportunity to see some interesting video and photos of the effort.
Hi How It Going Hope Good My Mom Dad Was on The Uss.Grunion the time it was lossed And his Name Is Elmer T SchumannE.T.QMC And All Of Live In Wis Hope To See More .
I seem to have trouble getting my comments on this site so this is a test to see if workd.
Ah, it works. My dad was on the Grunion went it went down. I never knew him as I was born in Dec. of “42″.
All these years I have collected every piece od information I could find on the fate of the Grunion. I even wrote to the program, “Unsolved Mysteries” in an effort to get them involved in the investigation, but no luck. Now thanks to the Abele brothers I am able to live my dream through their efforts.
My mom is alive but does not remember any of the shipmates of my dad. She collected newspaper clippings and magazine articles during WWII that are very interesting. I have that collection along with items that belonged to my dad.
I wish to thank the USS Bowfish museum for posting the individual pictures of the crew members.
Mr. Sanders,
Please review the link on the search page called “Lost Grunion family contacts”. If you have any clippings that perhaps mentions the families of any of those men we have left to find, I’d love it if you’d send me a copy. Nobles’s son sent me one that helped to locate Carson Martin’s daughter and there may be other articles with clues in them. Thanks. Also you and your mother might check out the link on the main page called “Submarine Grunion photo archive”. Perhaps your parents were at the Grunion Commissioning party and if so I’d like to know which ones they are in the group photo. With the people already identified we are now only up to 10 identities. My address is rrrstar@wmconnect.com
Mr. Tramm,
Did you get the stuff I sent in the mail to your uncle? If so, is it possible from old photos and such to make a positive ID on Schumann in the Commissioning party group photo (if he is there of course) and perhaps his wife or other relations that may have been there?
I’m honored to have found this site. I now have the opportunity to thank the family of those brave men that served to protect our great way of life. I was not around during that time, was born in 1961 but i have aways had the highest respect for men and woman of the armed forces. God bless the men of the USS Grunion.