The World - News from May 4, 1989

U.S. and Japanese planes and ships gave up the search for two crewmen washed overboard from a U.S. Navy submarine off southwestern Japan, officials said. U.S. military officials identified the servicemen as Lt. Walter Gray Womble III, 36, of Tampa, Fla., and James David Lear, 20, of Washburn, Ill. Lear’s rank was not immediately available. A U.S. Air Force patrol plane and a Navy ship, along with three Japanese patrol boats and a Japanese plane, had been searching for the two sailors since an unexpected wave washed three crewmen overboard from the diesel-powered submarine Barbel. One of the sailors was spotted by a plane and rescued by the submarine.