[robowombat]

This loss significantly impacted standing up thenew SAC 7th Air Division. No bodies being ever found but numerous survivors spotted in the water and a lot of wreckage floating about makes the fate of these men more than suspicious.This was J V Stalin's Soviet Union at its most florid.

[Red Badger]

Either Soviets or Aliens.......................

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Why would it take so long to get another aircraft on station?

That doesn’t make any sense!

[DesertRhino]

With all that we found out when the Soviet archives were opened I wonder if the fates of these men were answered?
We learned about the Venona cable secrets. We learned the details of the Rosenberg spy ring. We learned about Red Air force pilots in Korea. We learned about the death of Yuri Gagarin. We got a boatload of unthinkable secrets during those open years before the cold war started back up. We got unimaginable detail about the Stalin era crimes. We learned all about KAL-007.

But I’ve never found anything specifically addressing the fate of captured US airmen in the cold war.

[Fiji Hill]

Unless it heard the initial mayday call or distress calls over the Gibson Girl radios, I don’t see how a Soviet submarine could have found the fliers. They probably vanished in the vastness of the sea.