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The US submarine USS Flier on eternal patrol since August of 1944 when she was lost has been found. http://www.ussflier.com/release.htm

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

Heros all, now finally at the end of their too long patrol.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

how many US submarines remain missing now? seems like a spurt of discoveries in recent years:

Wahoo
Lagarto
Grunnion
Perch
Snook
Flier

+ the Japanese minisub sunk by Ward

and i believe a Soviet sub was found somewhere around Sweden in the last few months

Add USS Rabalo(SS-273) to the missing list. Last heard from 2 July 1944 after sighting a Japanese
battleship and 2 destroyer escorts east of Borneo. I ran across that while reading Flier's
War Patrol Reports and sinking on her second patrol as well as USS Redfin's(SS-272) report
on the rescue of Flier survivors. Interesting background on some coastwatchers and expats
willing to help in the Redfin report. Here...
http://issuu.com/hnsa/docs/ss-250_flier?mode=a_p
Incidentally, the tug which towed the Flier back from Midway at the beginning of the report
is ASR-9 USS Florikan. That bucket was still in service at Ballast Point, San Diego in 1975
when I was stationed there. She was finally decomissioned in 1991..USN got their moniesworth
outta that one!



Complete WW2 USN Sub War Patrol reports here...
http://hnsa.org/doc/subreports.htm

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