The Navy this week released hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed documents of testimony from the classified investigation into the sinking of the USS Thresher, which nearly 60 years later remains the worst submarine disaster in U.S. history.
The documents — the first 300 pages of the more than 1,700 pages of testimony from the Court of Inquiry — include witnesses and exhibits, findings of fact, opinions, recommendations and initial testimony, and provide insight into what Navy officials knew and their decision-making at the time. Up until this point, only 19 pages of testimony had been made public.
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