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Article: SUB AND CREW OF 86 HONORED 6 DECADES AFTER WAR IN PACIFIC.(LOCAL)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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Byline: Associated Press
MANITOWOC -- About 150 family members of those who died on the USS Lagarto more than 60 years ago gathered Saturday for a remembrance ceremony at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
The USS Lagarto disappeared around May 3, 1945, in an area near Thailand where U.S. ships worked to disrupt Japanese military supply routes. Eighty-six men died in the incident, which happened three months before President Truman ordered atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, setting the stage for Japan's surrender.
It was presumed that a Japanese minelayer sank the Lagarto -- the 21st of 28 submarines built in Manitowoc, and one of four ...