WELCOME ABOARD to our new Members in 1994!

(3372-1994) EUGENE KUPP USA
(3373-1994) CARL B. KNIES USA
(3374-1994) ED LYONS USA
(3375-1994) MICHAEL S. JONES USA
(3376-1994) MICHAEL S. FINCH USA
(3377-1994) ERIC MOURGIS USA
(3378-1994) OTTO SOHN USA
(3379-1994) WILSON WEHMEIER USA

(3380-1994) MASAJIRO KAWATO USA
When MIKE (his American name) was only in third grade he and some friends built an 'airplane' from bamboo, canvas and powered by a bicycle tube like the rubber-band models one would buy in a hobby shop today. It flew, in a manner of speaking, off a 1,000 foot cliff but it got him hooked on flying. When he was 16 (in 1941) he volunteered as a Junior student in pilot training where he hoped to enter the full pilot training program. After more than two years of tough training, MIKE entered the War as a fighter pilot at Rabaul in the South Pacific.

During his time as a ZERO pilot, MIKE scored 19 aerial victories, was shot down 5 times himself, received 17 combat wounds, and was "killed" in combat in 1945 in the area of the Solomon Islands. His funeral was held the same year in his home in Japan. I suspect that his family and friends were pleased to learn later that he was indeed, still alive.

In 1976, MIKE broke the world distance record for single engine propeller aircraft in a trans-Pacific solo flight from Haneda Airport, Japan to Crescent City, California in a PIPER 260 COMANCHE which was modified to carry 480 gallons of fuel. That was enough to take him the 35 hours and 15 minutes into the history books......again.

The first time MIKE entered aviation history in a big way was when he scored aerial victory number 13, a US MARINE CORSAIR flown by Major Greg 'PAPPY' Boyington, leader of the famed BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON. MIKE met Boyington many years after the War and they became friends. MIKE is the only Japanese ZERO ACE living in the USA.

(3381-1994) CARL BRAUN USA
(3382-1994) BILLY L. HUMPHREY USA
(3383-1994) LIONEL L. TAYLOR USA
(3384-1994) HAROLD LIBELL USA

(3385-1994) WALTER BOENER USA
He was born in Villarrica, Paraguay, the son of a German diplomat and was raised and educated in Paraguay, Brazil, Uraguay, Argentina and Germany and when a break in diplomatic relations between South American countries and Germany occurred, WALTER and his family were returned to Germany. He was an avid pilot from his early years, he began flying HITLER YOUTH gliders as a teen-ager. He had great success with the LUFTWAFFE flying Me 109 aircraft with JG 54 (the GREEN HEART HUNTERS) and a short time in a Me 262 jet fighter with JG 7.

He was outspoken, and was arrested by the GESTAPO for his remarks that American fliers were not murderers and criminals, but were just doing their job. He was sentenced to death but a fortunate air raid on Berlin helped him escape prison, where he had an adventurous trip through Germany and ultimately to the lines of the French FIRST DIVISION. He worked with US INTELLIGENCE to find NAZI activists and later became an aid to GENERAL ADOLF GALLAND (2854-1993) where the 'FIGHTER GENERAL' was putting together the ARGENTINE AIR FORCE for General Juan Peron. WALTER later returned to his native Paraguay to help oust President Chavez. He is now a US citizen.

(3586-1994) WILLIAM N. FRANCE USA

(3387-1994) MRS. LOUISE WALKER USA
MRS. WALKER is the widow of LT Bill Walker, the leader of the saboteur party off USS BARB when they planted explosives beneath the rails of a Japanese railroad and blew up a troop train. This was the ONLY time in the course of World War II that American fighting forces set foot on the home islands of the Japanese Empire.

(3388-1994) WOLFGANG FREESE GERMANY
Currently a chef in a major German department store in north Germany, WOLFGANG had his interest in U-Boats aroused during his time in the new German Navy (the BUNDSMARINE) from January 1988 until December 1991. He took many courses to improve himself and advanced to Petty Officer, and served aboard U-25 (S 174). He loved his time riding the boats, and he was the Radioman, which he said was very nice because he knew first-hand what the Skipper was planning, and knew what orders were coming to the boat even before the Skipper. He is interested in the history of the U-Bootwaffe of the KRIEGSMARINE and is in touch with researchers in England, Scotland, Finland, Canada and Germany.

(3389-1994) MICHAEL S. DAVIS USA
(3390-1994) JOE HEINS USA
(3391-1994) DR. BILL HAWKINS USA
(3392-1994) STEVEN P. GARRISON USA

(3393-1994) DAN KEIM USA
DAN enjoys the sea, nature, history & biographies. He was hooked since he was a small boy and walked aboard U-505. He thinks it is important to keep the history of the men and the machines alive.

(3394-1994) PABLO PEREZ RAMIREZ MEXICO
(3395-1994) GREGORY B. WENTWORTH USA
(3396-1994) LT. CHRISTOPHER CARLSON USA
(3397-1994) JERRY G. STANGL USA
(3398-1994) EMERY E. BASSETT USA

(3399-1994) ROBERT J. MATHIS USA
BOB writes: "I have been a U-Boat enthusiast since I was a young boy. My very first model was a replica of U-505 by Monogram. My son is 18 months old, but he is already a submarine fan."

(3400-1994) RYAN SCHULTZ USA
(3401-1994) COLIN V. GIBSON USA
(3402-1994) MARK R. KUKULICH USA
(3403-1994) KEVIN M. RUTLAND USA
(3404-1994) GEORGE F. CULLEN USA

(3405-1994) ROBERT A. BARNES USA
"Joined US NAVY 1943, boot camp Newport RI, requested sub duty and sent to sub school in Groton CT 'SPRITZ' NAVY' and did battery gyro school. Assigned to commissioning crew USS ANGLER (SS 240), made first three war patrols in the South Pacific with Freemantle, West Australia as our home port. Transferred to relief crew, then transferred to USS GURNARD (SS 254) and made the last three patrols also South Pacific; Philippine Sea, San Barnardino Straits, rescued 54 American men, women & children from the island of Panay and brought them to Darwin. Sailed GURNARD back to Mare Island, California for complete refit then back to Midway Island. They dropped the A-Bomb and the War was over, with many good times and great memories. Glad to be a Member of SHARKHUNTERS."

(3406-1994) JAMES KORSTEN USA
(3407-1994) GERARD THORNE CANADA

(3408-1994) PAUL K. MENGELBERG CANADA
Trained to become an industrial electrician and shortly thereafter, joined the German Navy 'COASTAL COMMAND in Wilhelmshaven in 1934 at the age of 17. He was trained as a range-finder for anti-aircraft 8.8cm and long-range 21cm gunning. By 1936, by his request, he joined the Fleet, but first he underwent landtraining (Bootcamp). Then he was sent to the 2nd Torpedoboat Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven, aboard the torpedoboat ILTIS which was built in 1926. This was sort of a small destroyer of about 900 tons. PAUL went with her to Spain during the Spanish conflict in 1938.

Upon returning, ILTIS was decommissioned and part of the crew went to the shipyards to become familiarized with the new destroyers, the forerunner of the NARVIK class. He was on Z-23 (HERMANN SCHOMANN) just briefly as he had put in for the U-Bootwaffe and was trained to become a submariner & was back to the shipyard for training in U-Boats, and was aboard U-39, a TYPE IX-A boat. She was commissioned 1938 and her Skipper was Kplt Gerd Glattes. This was the first U-Boat to be lost in World War II and her entire crew became British POW's. PAUL transferred off before U-39 departed and was on one of the two very rare TYPE I-A boats, U-26. He rode her for five war patrols, but they had to scuttle the boat because she was too badly damaged from an eight hour depth-charging. The crew was rescued after two or three hours by HMS ROCHESTER and PAUL ultimately ended up in captivity in Canada. He got to love Canada so much that he emigrated there more than 50 years ago, where he and his wife Agi, live today. We noted that PAUL is a former crewmember and friend of our good friend ERNST GOTHLING (1225-1989).

PAUL is an amateur radio operator (HAM) and he suggests that we form a SHARKHUNTERS radio network. OKAY, that's a good idea - who can show us how to accomplish this?

(3409-1994) KEVIN FREYER USA
Submarine sailor from 1974 to 1980

(3410-1994) DON RICHARD USA
(3411-1994) WILL HILL USA
(3412-1994) MICHAEL ENSLEY USA
(3413-1994) CRAIG G. MURDOCH USA
(3414-1994) THOMAS F. GOLDEN USA
(3415-1994) KEVIN REED USA
(3416-1994) WILLIAM J. ANDERSON USA
(3417-1994) KEVIN M. BARRY USA
(3418-1994) GERALD H. SHOAF USA

(3419-1994) JON DROWN USA
At 6'4" JON was a bit tall for the boats, but he rode them anyhow. He went to the US NAVY school of mine warfare then to USS BUSHNELL (AS 15) for a little more than 3 years in Key West and while he was there, he was able to ride a whole bunch of USN boats and had a multitude of jobs such as torpedo handling, working in the mine shop & while at sea stood helmsman & annunciator watches. He went up the Mississippi River twice to New Orleans, also to Tampa, Guantanimo, St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, San Juan Puerto Rico and Port au Prince Haiti, they even stopped off in Havana before Fidelito came to power.

Life has taken a sour turn for JON, as he learned that he has MS! He said that life has been HELL for him ever since.

JON says: "I know many Members' wives take pleasure in their husband's Membership, that is why I'm sending a photo of my grandson, for I will take him under my sails and try to teach him the ways of a better world."

(3420-1994) DENNIS SZOLLOSI USA
Radarman, served aboard USS JOHN F. KENNEDY and USS WASP

(3421-1994) MARK J. OBERMEIER USA

(3422-1994) JOESPH LISS USA
JOE is one of the directors of the group that was supposed to receive USS CABOT from Legion Post #377 and operate her as a Memorial; but it appears that the IRON LADY has been sold for scrap and will never be a Memorial or a Museum.

(3423-1994) RICHARD SAVEL USA
RICK is a real estate consultant, is a pilot & aircraft mechanic who is involved with military and antique aircraft restoration. Many of the planes he helped restore are now in major museums around the USA. He is currently working on restoring a Boeing Stearman military trainer, which was the last production bi-plane manufactured on a large scale.

(3424-1994) D. ROBERT SHINE USA

(3425-1994) JORGE UBIETTA USA
"My own personal interest in the military began when I was very young. My father was knowledgeable of many different aspects of the War and the hardware utilized. In the past 7 or 8 years I have also developed a special interest in the submarine service, more particularly the German U-Boats. At first it was only the submarines themselves. However, after reading countless books on the lives & exploits of many U-Boat Skippers I have come to appreciate the hardships endured by these young men and their crews. These men, along with all submariners of other nations during this epoch, should be hailed for their many sacrifices under those most unbearable circumstances they were exposed to.

Every war has taken heavy tolls of the youth of many different countries. Without exploring all the various political and/or philosophical ideologies attributed to each conflict the fact remains that men and women have gone into battle striving to achieve their leaders' objectives. Many did not wholly agree on the methods to fulfill these, nonetheless their patriotism & loyalty carried them on. I salute ALL true sailors, soldiers & airmen of all wars who have made the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of their fellow human beings.

(3426-1994) CDR RICHARD L. CALLAGHAN USA
(3427-1994) EDWARD AWEZEC USA

(3428-1994) DR. E. J. BREHM USA
Crewman on U-187

(3429-1994) CLYDE BURKE CANADA

(3430-1994) JOE REBER USA
JOE enlisted in the US NAVY toward the end of the War. Assigned to NAS Key West (Boca Chica Key). He flew some patrols in a PBY in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The U-Boat warfare had ended but the war with Japan was still in progress, so they still flew patrols. His parents came to the USA from Germany in the early 1920's and his dad had served in the German infantry for four years where he was wounded three times in World War I.

(3431-1994) GERALD ADAMS USA

(3432-1994) DR. W. A. P. THOMPSON USA
Married to the daughter of RADM ERICH TOPP (118-LIFE-1985)

(3433-1994) JOSEPH MANDA USA
(3434-1994) TOM NESTOR USA

(3435-1994) DONALD V. O'BRIEN USA
Born and raised in the Boston area, where he quickly developed a love for the sea and the boats that sail on it. He became an accomplished artist in both oils and watercolors, and his works hang in many private and corporate collections in the USA and Europe. His brother was lost when SS LOUISE LYKES, loaded with ammunition, was torpedoed and sunk by U-384 on 9 January, 1943.

(3436-1994) KEVIN J. DORAN USA
(3437-1994) LCDR WILLIAM P. MURTHA USA
(3438-1994) GEORGE P. ANDERSON USA

(3439-1994) BILL ASHBY USA
Submarine Veteran

(3440-1994) LEO KUNTRZ USA
(3441-1994) DOUG HARRIS USA
(3442-1994) CHARLES J. WINTROTH USA
(3443-1994) PAUL-HENRIK ROSCHIER FINLAND

(3444-1994) TIM DENEEN USA
Submarine Veteran

(3445-1994) WILL ASHWORTH USA

(3446-1994) CDR W. W. ENNIS USA
Submarine Veteran who rode USS SANDLANCE, USS GUITARRO and USS DIODEN

(3447-1994) WALDO TULK USA

(3448-1994) RONALD J. HYNES USA
"I was born in the UK in 1934, grew up in wartime, witnessed dogfights between SPITFIRES and various German planes. Also, nearby was a German P.O.W. camp from where I lived near the North Sea. I also saw merchant ships torpedoed and sunk. I joined the ROYAL NAVY for twelve years, serving all over the world. We had an empire then. Also volunteered for service in submarines. A lot of my service was aboard fast patrol boats, North Sea patrol also Far East (Malaya, Singapore). After my enlistment expired, I joined the British Merchant Navy, sailing back around the world again for eight years. I have met a lot of German sailors. We had a lot of respect for them and I'm sure they had respect for the British sailors."

(3449-1994) ROGER W. CANNING USA
(3450-1994) WALTER BLUMKE USA

To all these new Members, WELCOME ABOARD! And we hope you are with us for many, many years yet to come.