This Project Has Brought Closure To The Families Of 5 Sunken WWII Subs

 

NBC: Ocean explorer discovers 5 sunken WWII subs, giving closure to hundreds of families 

"It's not about finding ships," Tim Taylor said. "The importance of our work is to connect families and bring some type of closure and peace even generations later." 

Since she was a young girl, Helen Cashell Baldwin had been haunted by the mystery of what happened to the doomed Navy submarine USS R-12. 

Baldwin's father, Fredrick Edward Cashell, and 41 other men died in June 1943 when the submarine sank off the Florida Keys during a World War II training exercise. The R-12 could not be found, and as Baldwin went from an 8-year-old girl to a 75-year-old woman, she all but lost hope that it would ever be discovered. 

As a teenager, I found myself looking for him, because there was never a funeral," Baldwin said. "There was never a memorial service. ... There was nothing." 

But in 2011, a relative forwarded her a website claiming that the submarine had been found. Ocean explorer Tim Taylor, who set up the site, wanted to get in touch with relatives of the victims.

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WNU Editor: Many of my family members in the former Soviet Union disappeared during the Second World War .... family members that I know someone like my mother wishes she could have closure on. 

The work that Ocean explorer Tim Taylor is doing is priceless.