Since the acceptance of the first submarine into the U.S. Navy in 1900, over four thousand men have lost their lives in the Silent Service. A great majority of them died in World War II. Following are brief glimpses of a few of those gallant men:
Please see our sister site - On Eternal Patrol - for individual memorial pages on each of the over 4,000 men lost while serving in the U.S. Submarine Force.
