5 Dec 1977
- Submarine Capitaine was struck from the US Naval Register; as Italian submarine Alfredo Cappellini (S-507), she was being prepared for scrapping. ww2dbase [Capitaine | CPC]
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky passed away in Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Aleksandr Vasilevsky | Moscow | CPC]
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