Pappa Romeo 26 officially got "hit by lightning" for about 10 years till the North Koreans advertised and boasted about shooting it to pieces over the Sea of Japan.
For 40 years the families of those men knew nothing about their loved ones deaths. The pilot of the P3 dishonored the men before him that did what had to be done.
One final note, you notice he decided not to make the Navy a career??? I suspect he was helped in making that decision.
BTW, The N Koreans shot down PR-21.