It was 70 years ago this week when a sleepy neighborhood along Lake Washington in Seattle became ground zero for a show-stopping Cold War military exercise.
Gaeth is now 77 years old and lives in Hawaii, but he’s a regular listener to KIRO Newsradio. He emailed some memories of what he saw and heard that day 70 years ago and then spoke with KIRO Newsradio earlier this week.
“So you can imagine our excitement one day when my seven or eight-year-old buddies and I looked down the hill and saw, positioned outside of Sand Point, a number of larger Naval vessels,” Gaeth told KIRO Newsradio. “But by gosh, there they were, and we sure knew it was not going to be your typical summer day in Seattle.”
With 8,000 people looking on from bleachers near the beach and the same number estimated to be watching from outside the fence – including William Gaeth and his pals – 17 Navy vessels stood offshore with some 3,000 personnel. The vessels, which had all, included two rocket ships, four destroyer escorts, two seaplane tenders, and a patrol craft.
Probably most exciting of all was when the exercise kicked off with the surfacing of the USS Volador – a 300-foot long US Navy submarine, right there in little old Lake Washington, emerging from the waves just 200 yards offshore. As the Volador appeared, it began firing depth charges and other explosives.
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