It was July 30, 1942, and World War II was in its infancy. The USS Grunion, a Gato-class attack submarine, had been patrolling the Aleutian Islands on her first war patrol, just west of Alaska and north of Kiska Island.
After reportedly sinking two Japanese patrol boats and crippling another, the Grunion's Lt. Cmdr. Mannert "Jim" Abele (pronounced A-blee) reported intensified submarine activity in the area, so the boat was ordered back to Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
The sub would never be seen, nor its 70-member crew heard from, again. Its vanishing would likely remain a mystery forever.
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