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Gerald McLees: Downed Sub Survivor

NPR
Published August 16, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

Host Madeleine Brand talks to Gerald McLees, one of 33 sailors rescued from the USS Squalus, when it sank off the coast of New Hampshire 61 years ago. 26 of his shipmates died in the accident.

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