Ira served on the USS Seafox, and the USS Carbonero. Ira served and was deeply involved during Korea and the aftermath of the Cold War espionage playing war games with Russian submarines. Though little fighting took place at these underwater depths, during these times, subs were sent to do high tech surveillance and to land commandos. Though much was ever said because their activities were so secret, there stories were never told until recently, when some of their stories were able to be told because the navy declassified many of these records. Stories about H bombs mistakenly lost on the ocean floor and stealing a lost Russian submarine or tapping the underground communication cable of the Soviet Union line at the bottom of the sea of Okhotsk.



Sometimes they would leave port and have absolutely no communications with any family for up to 6 months at a time.
If you want to read brilliant hair raising stories of American sailors serving as submariners read the New York Times Best Seller "Blind Mans Bluff" written by by Sherry Sontag, et al;

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