April 2024 Greetings from the Tennessee Submarine Memorial Association. April is the month Submariners celebrate the birthday of the Silent Service, marking the U.S. Navy’s acceptance of USS Holland in commission on April 11, 1900. As we mark our 124th birthday we also remember the over 4000 Brothers of the Phin, lost aboard 65 American...
March 2024 Greetings from the Tennessee Submarine Memorial Association. We continue to make great strides in organizing the Board committees, identifying a memorial site and in launching a preliminary memorial design. Our newly named Advisory Board member, Jon Jacques, met with officials of a Middle Tennessee town that is interested in becoming the host for...
[TSMA – February 27, 2024] Eighty years ago today 80 U.S. Submariners aboard USS Grayback were deep into their 10th combat war patrol in the enemy controlled waters of the Western Pacific. Grayback’s crew had sent two Japanese army cargo ships to the bottom a week earlier in the East China Sea. On the 26th...
February 2024 Greetings from the Tennessee Submarine Memorial Association. Last month the Board did a deep dive, pardon the pun, into our main effort and organized committees to focus our tireless team on moving our project forward. The Board also approved creation of a TSMA Advisory Board, to bring more Submariners, military folks and community...
The Submariners who serve on the Tennessee Submarine Memorial Association Board of Directors invite you to get to know them and to learn more about the work of the group to commemorate American Submariners lost in service to the nation.
January 2024 Happy New Year and welcome to the first TSMA newsletter of 2024. This monthly series will keep you up to date on the progress we’re making bringing a memorial to Tennessee to commemorate American Submariners lost in war and peace in defense of the nation. Please share this newsletter with family, friends and...
August 2023 Update Never Forgotten Americans justly take pride in remembering the men and women who died in the Armed Forces. Since 1868 those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the nation were commemorated on Memorial Day, and other ceremonies at other times. American Submariners are proud of their forerunners in the Silent...
December 7, 2022 Hello friends, Today we mark the 81st anniversary of the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into a World War that touched every country on Earth and every family across America. From the “dastardly” attack on December 7, 1941 that killed over 2,300, until the Japanese Empire surrendered...
HELP US BUILD A MEMORIAL TO SUBMARINERS IN TENNESSEE May 30, 2022 Hello Friends. The Tennessee Submarine Memorial Association joins our fellow citizens today in commemorating the Americans who have made the supreme sacrifice for the United States. Among them were 87 men from Tennessee who were lost in war and peace serving in U.S....
Today we remember our 99 Submariner brothers who were lost onboard USS Scorpion (SSN589) in the Atlantic Ocean on May 22, 1968 and their families. The exact cause of Scorpion’s sinking about 400 miles southwest of the Azore islands, in 10,000 feet of water, is unknown. There are numerous theories based on extensive analysis of...
