... USS Enterprise (CV-6). Bush, as well as four other rescued airmen would remain aboard the Finback for thirty days, until the end of the patrol. Heyworth, now qualified for command of submarines, left the Finback in January 1945 to serve ...
... ( National Archives ) BELOW RIGHT The nuclear - powered USS Finback ( SSN - 670 ) at Port Canaveral on 3 February 1994. ( USN ) USS FINBACK SSN 670 A starboard quarter view of USS Narwhal ( SSN -. 122 NAUTILUS TO COLUMBIA USS Finback (SSN- ...
... USS Finback ( SS 230 ) , 1948-50 , as it pulled in ( one - third on one generator , other three were flooded ) , after almost sinking from a ' hydraulic jack ' ( left in shears at Navy yard ) . Washed into main induction in a very rough ...
... USS FINBACK (SS-230) was launched 25 August 1941 by Portsmouth Navy Yard and commissioned 31 January 1942, LCDR J. L. Hull in command. FINBACK reached Pearl Harbor from New London 29 May 1942, and on 25 June sailed for the Aleutians on ...
... USS ORTOLAN ( ASR22 ) . RASMUSSEN , EVAN R. , NSCS , ATHENS . RUBIN , MARK I. , NSCS , ATHENS . SANTEN , FRANK L ... FINBACK ( SSN670 ) . ASEBO TISDALE , ALFRED E. , III , NSCS , ATHENS . LG26 ) HENS THOMPSON , CHARLES B. , III , USS ...
... USS Finback and was eventually awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.5 Only grainy film footage documented Bush's rescue by the Finback, though it endured through the decades as a staple of his political marketing efforts. I remember ...