Happy Birthday

Members

by Harry Cooper


Members celebrating their birthdays in September include:

2nd HARRY COOPER (1-LIFE-1983) USAF Vet; founder and Pres. of SHARKHUNTERS & EAGLEHUNTERS;
3rd BILL CHIVIL (314-1987);
3rd Dr. VERCIL SENSEMAN (692-1988);
7th TONY PHILLIPS (436-LIFE-1988);
13th DENNIS POSTL (729-1988);
15th ART AYDELOTTE (787-1988);
15th DICK JONES (1726-1991);
18th R. M. CLARE (1571-A-1990) Paymaster, 2nd U-Boot- Lehr-Division at Gotenhafen/Gdingen;
20th MIKE HOWELL (174-LIFE-1986);
20th JAMES KLINE (300-A/LIFE-1987), member of our SHARKHUNTERS TASK FORCE ALPHA;
21st ROBERT MacMILLAN (952-1989);
22nd WERNER KREYMANN (1907-1991) U-bootfahrer;
22nd Dr. COLEMAN SESKIND (2360-1992) Model builder;
25th ALBERT ROHDE (9-1983) Radioman under Schaar on U-957 and U-2551;
25th PETER HANSEN (251-LIFE-1987) U-Boat officer and ABWEHR agent, author of PETER'S PAGE;
28th RADM HANS-RUDOLF RÖSING (313-1987), one of the three Skippers of U-48, the MOST SUCCESSFUL submarine of World War II;
28th RADM VALERI BOBROVSKY (2540-1992), First Deputy of the Chief of Headquarters of the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet;
30th JOHN ROLL (539-1992)

Members celebrating their birthday in October include:

2nd Monika Hansen (PETER's wife);
4th FREDERICK CHANG (772-1988);
6th MARK PEARSON;
8th Prof TOM MACKIN (146-A-1985) band director whose band played the KRETSCHMER MARCH for the first time since the end of World War II;
10th DAN WOLFE (91-1985)
15th WESLEY KASKIW (614-1988);
15th BILL SHERMAN (1445-1990) USN destroyer veteran;
16th GEORG HöGEL (240-1987), radioman on U-30, the first boat into combat and later on U-110, GEORG is the superb artist who does the conning tower emblems we use in our KTB Magazine;
16th OTTO von BüLOW (305-1987) Skipper of U-404 and one of only 28 U-Boaters to win the KNIGHTS CROSS with OAK LEAF CLUSTER
16th RANDY GARLIPP (422-1988);
23rd EDDIE RUMPF (179-1986) super-researcher;
23rd JOE DEVLIN (724-1988);
25th JONATHAN FINDLEY (1743-C/LIFE-1991) USCG;
27th Dr. JAMES J. CARROLL (2391-A-1992) business advisor to SHARKHUNTERS and EAGLEHUNTERS;
30th DAVID BLUETT (81-C-1984);
31st Dr. THAD LAYTON (450-1988)

Members celebrating their birthday in November include:

2nd NEIL SELMER (858-LIFE-1988);
5th GERHARD RICHTER (214-LIFE-1986) radioman on U-81 on several warpatrols including the one during which they sank the RN aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL;
5th JOHN WOOLIN (637-1988);
6th GARY KRAISINGER (1467-1990);
7th VADM KOMORAV (1959-1991) former Deputy Chief of the Soviet Navy;
9th SEAN PATRICK COOPER (1/2-1987) my son and future US Navy Admiral;
12th WILLIAM NAPIER (2290-1992);
13th WILLIAM PURCELL (3711-1994);
14th CHUCK HESLER (832-A/LIFE-1988);
15th RADM IVAN SMIRNOV (2088-1991) Soviet Navy;
18th GERHARD THäTER (194-1986) Commander of U-466 and later U-3506;
18th S. S. RULLMAN (2438-1992) Airline pilot;
21st JIM VIZIGIAN (29-1984) USN Signalman who watched the boats come into Portsmouth (NH) at the end of the War and he confirmed that U-234 had 560 kilos of Uranium Oxide aboard for the Japanese Army.
21st KARL STEPHAN (1795-1991);
24th BILL BRANDT (919-1989);
26th ADM VLADIMIR EGOROV (2535-1992) CinC of the Baltic (Russian) Fleet;
28th JAMES KENNEDY (1906-1991) SubVet;
28th PEN HARMS, Editor of our EAGLEHUNTERS FB.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from our international family or more than 4,500 Members in 52 countries - - we wish you many more.


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