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Memorial Update
Coordination for the Memorial is being handled by a committee consisting of members of the Abele family, Mary and Dick Bentz, and John Fakan, the director of the USS Cod Submarine Memorial in Cleveland. An email address (GrunionMemorial@aol.com) has been established as the point of email communication for the Memorial. If you […]
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Thanks to Stan Kendrick (his wife Geraldine is sister to Edward Knowles of the crew) we have located the ship’s bell from the Grunion.
The story is rather incredible. In 1942 a Chaplin found in a rubbish barrel a bag which inside had a bell with the USS Grunion inscribed on it. He […]
Bruce mbabele@999info.net
Memorial
We are in the process of organizing a memorial. Here are key points:
Location: Cleveland OH at the USS Cod Museum. Cleveland is centrally located, easy to get to and is a reasonably inexpensive city. During WWII there were 52 subs lost; each was assigned to a state, the Grunion going to Ohio. The […]
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Jim Christley has just completed a third annotated version of the Grunion as it exists today. It is worth studying carefully.
It is in the ‘Christley album’ on the Photo Albums. [The link is in the left menu, titled “Photos Search 07″]
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Steve Finnigan of the Sub Force Museum has sent several photos of the Grunion that show the name and perhaps more important a different view of the prop guards. They are on the Photo Album.