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Submarine incident off Paengnyong-do



Dawn,

I forwarded your post to two gentlemen who were involved in the submarine
incident you described and wrote a book on it -- Donald McElfresh and Al
Marsh. If you will contact me off list, I will send you their email address.
Regards

At 11:05 AM 3/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
 >My father, Ted Lambert serial number 3259969, was aboard the USS English in
 >February of 1951. He is in the final stages of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Last
 >week, he talked about his service during the Korean War. He was curious 
about
 >a submarine they downed during that time. They were sworn to secrecy at the
 >time, but I would love to be able to tell what country's submarine that was.
 >He believes it was destroyed.
 >
 >Ted was actually a navy man and did TDY for the 1st Marine Division. He said
 >he served under Colonel Bradford.
 >
 >If anyone could give me more information, or links to, on what he was part
 >of, I would certainly appreciate it. He refused to talk about his times in
 >the war. I wish he could tell me more. I do know he took part in what he 
says
 >was the biggest battle of the war, Chosen Reservior.
 >
 >Thanks to all that can help me. If you knew my dad, please let me know that
 >also.
 >
 >Dawn Garlich
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