Japanese newspaper picture of the USS Swordfish (SSN 579) limping into Yokosuka with a bent periscope in 1968.
Японская газета картина УСС рыба-меч (ПСС 579) хромает в Йокосуке с согнутый перископ в 1968 году.
Переписка. Переводите сами. Имена естественно не упоминаю.
At that time the navy said we "hit some floating debris." Maybe ... but, since the operation was classified no one will ever know. If you Swordfish sailors and "non-quals" want to read two excellent non-fiction books on submarine operations during the Cold War, check out the following web site. The Swordfish bent-scope incident is mentioned in both books and is the USSR's motivation for some of the events that follow.
PS-The non-quals reading this may wonder what a non-qual is. Well, there are two kinds of people in world, Submarine Sailors who have earned their Dolphins and then everybody else, non-quals.
-Did that happen March 8th 1968 LOL
-Patrick, I don't understand your question. The Swordfish incident in Yokosuka, the sinking of K-129 and the USS Scorpion all occurred in 1968.
-It happened ... In a place known only to those who could look out of the Scope and then look at a map... SO very few people know where it happened... Me.. I'm one of them... And I'm not anymore than I've already said...
-Guy's I remember that partol. I remember that the sky over us looked like a convention of Japanese helicopters.
-Except periscope and still felling bottom of...
-Do you remember the nuc-VIPs that were heliocoptered to us at sea after we were kicked out of Sasebo?
-George, yes I remember. Seems like it was yesterday.
-Wasnt all of that fun
ha.... Sasebo sure was...ha ha..
-and don't forget bouncing off the bottom and limping into Guam for repairs! 1968, that was a heck of a year.
-George I remember I was down in the ECM space with ET2 Gordon when that happened....hell of a smack, then up angle and then think we fell off to the right and settled out etc..... Ну и тд.
