In November of 1964, Frank Plaskon, of McKeesport, was a 24-year-old Special Forces Ranger out of Fort Bragg, N.C.
Frank was part of a team dispatched to the USS Requin now berthed on the Ohio River at the Carnegie Science Center.
“And I can’t believe that 48 years later it’s right here in my hometown,” he said. —Local Veteran Revisits USS Requin At Carnegie Science Center « CBS Pittsburgh.
It’s a great human interest story. Unfortunately, I can’t read it all on my iPad– this is how the page renders, with a video blocking part of the text.
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