'At Least I Know What Happened'

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Nancy Albert was sure the telegram in her mailbox 61 years ago would announce her husband, a Navy submariner, was coming home on leave.

"I ran upstairs. 'Oh, Joe's coming home! Joe's coming home! It's a telegram.' But he wasn't coming home. It was: 'We regret to inform you your husband is missing in action,' " she recalled this week.

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'At Least I Know What Happened'

Her husband, Lt. j.g. Joseph Pash, who grew up in Sheraden, was among the 86-member crew of the USS Lagarto, a new submarine the Navy initially listed as missing in action as of May 24, 1945, just months before World War II ended.

On June 16, the Navy announced a submarine found by a British shipwreck diver 13 months earlier in the Gulf of Thailand ...

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