The search for the missing submersible lost during an expedition to the Titanic wreckage triggered vivid memories for a D.C. woman whose father was rescued from a military submarine in 1939. Lorraine ...
The submarine USS Squalus was sunk by accident during a 1939 training dive off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. Two years later, after being salvaged and refitted, the Squalus was renamed the USS ...
FOCUS ON HISTORY – Donato “Danny” Persico entered the submarine’s escape hatch, crawling up a steel ladder as his hands were too chilled to grasp the ladder’s rungs. Persico, who lived on Broad Street ...