Maria Villareal, the mother of one crew member, said: "At this point, the truth is I have no hope that they will come back." Image:Relatives and friends of Tagliapietra, one of the 44 crew members of the missing at sea ARA San Juan In his first public comments on the missing sub, ...
south of Iceland. In October, while assisting a British convoy, USS Kearny dropped depth charges on attacking German submarines; returning fire, U-568 struck Kearny with a torpedo, killing 11 men, who would become the US Navy's first casualties in the Atlantic War. Angrily, for America was...