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Re: DasBoot depth charge
Posted by: Patrick Meagher ()
Date: October 22, 2002 01:00AM

<HTML>Yep, got it right after it was reprinted in 85.

Got another story for you. I knew Captain Guy Gugliotta USN RET when he was a watch stander at the Retired Activities Office at NAS Moffett Field. His wife was the author of Pigboat 39. You need to read it if you haven't. Anyway, after the S-39 was lost on Rossel Reef near Australia, Gugliotta wound up on S-28 and had his first command tour on her. He then went to Halibut as XO under Galantin and made her last patrol where she was badly depth charged. Gugliotta told me that one of the depth charges detonated on top of the 4" deck gun and they could tell by the scorch marks on the gun, breech was split, trunnions sprung, sights destroyed, and heaviest hull deformation was directly under the gun foundation. Halibut also was too badly damaged to repair and ended up as pier-side trainer in New London. According to Gugliotta, S-28 went down with all hands off Pearl Harbor two weeks after he left her, he was on leave at the time. When he reported aboard Halibut and Galantin found out he had been on S-39 when she was lost and left S-28 two weeks before she went down he told him, "Gugliotta, your a Jonah, You don't leave Halibut before I do." Gugliotta relieved Galantin and brought Halibut back to New London. Gugliotta died this summer.</HTML>

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DasBoot depth charge Stan 10/15/2002 11:28AM
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Re: DasBoot depth charge ROBERT M. 10/16/2002 10:15PM
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Re: DasBoot depth charge ROBERT M. 10/16/2002 11:48PM
Re: DasBoot depth charge Patrick Meagher 10/21/2002 01:49AM
Re: DasBoot depth charge ROBERT M. 10/21/2002 02:57AM
Re: DasBoot depth charge Patrick Meagher 10/22/2002 01:00AM
Re: DasBoot depth charge ROBERT M. 10/22/2002 02:29AM
Re: DasBoot depth charge - Iron Coffins Photograph Phil Johnson 11/01/2002 08:52PM
Re: DasBoot depth charge Steve Roberts 10/17/2002 10:07AM
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