Meeting New Members

Sharkhunters

by Harry Cooper


4151-1995 ALFRED SCHNEIDEREIT GERMANY
4152-1995 Gen SYLVESTER STADLER GERMANY

4153-1995 KEN LEMKE USA
Married to Martha; three children (Michael, Brandy and Martina) and is a jet engine technician for a major US flag airline. Served three years with the 101st Airborne Division (the SCREAMING EAGLES); he has a commercial helicopter pilot license and holds a BA in history with emphasis on the German language.

4154-1995 PAUL MULCAHEY USA
4155-1995 MARTIN B. STROSSER USA
4156-1995 ROBERT FRETZ USA
4157-1995 CHARLES T. LANNER USA

4158-1995 JAMES L. TAYLOR USA
JIM is 25 and is a college student, earning a degree in Architecture. He is an avid student of history; has been to Pearl Harbor, NAS San Diego and to Normandy for the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

4159-1995 PATRICK STARK USA
4160-1995 FRANK SCHUBERT USA
4161-1995 J. ALAN COX USA

4162-1995 WILLIAM A. SCHOFIELD USA
He rode USS FLOUNDER during the war.

4163-1995 CHARLES HEGER USA
4164-1995 PETE CLARK USA

4165-1995 MICHAEL HUMPHRIES USA
At the ‘BLACK PANTHER’ Museum by U-1105.

4166-1995 ADAM von ROBERTS USA
4167-1995 EUGENE DOWNMAN USA
4168-1995 CHUCK BACHLEDA USA
4169-1995 ROBERT J. WHITE USA
4170-1995 ROBERT D. STEWART USA
4171-1995 MICHAEL R. HUGHSON CANADA

4172-1995 RUDI RAUCH CANADA
U-Bootfahrer who rode U-190

4173-1995 JOHN THORPE CANADA
4174-1995 REMY SCHRITNEN GERMANY
4175-1995 HELMUT SCHREIBER GERMANY
4176-1995 LEO G. REMIGER USA
4177-1995 LEIGH F. WEBER USA
4178-1995 JOEY FOLDING USA
4179-1995 JOE MAJOR USA
4180-1995 ROBERT J. WATTS USA
4181-1995 RICHARD C. CLARK USA
4182-1995 REX EPPS USA

4183-1995 WILLIAM FLURY USA
Only living survivor of SS JEAN NICOLET massacre by I-8 under Ariizumi

4184-1995 EINAR HREIDARSSON ICELAND
4185-1995 ALTON MacILROY CANADA
4186-1995 PAULO GUILHERME ARTIGAS FERRAZ BRAZIL

4187-1995 ERNST BARKMANN GERMANY
A tanker who destroyed more than 100 enemy tanks

4188-+-1995 General THEODORE WISCH GERMANY
Winner of the KNIGHTS CROSS with OAK LEAF CLUSTER and CROSSED SWORDS. General WISCH recently began his ‘ETERNAL PATROL’.

4189-1995 CAPTAIN RUDOLF von RIBBENTROP GERMANY
In the armored divisions; son of the Foreign Minister.

4190-1995 HEINZ HEUCKEROTH GERMANY
U-Bootfahrer

4191-1995 ROBERT BARNACK USA
4192-1995 OLIVER GRACE USA
4193-1995 ED McCAUL USA
4194-1995 JOHN C. HECKLER USA

4195-1995 TIM TASSINARI USA
He rode USS NEVADA (SSBN 733)

4196-1995 JAMES E. STEINKE USA
4197-1995 GARY M. PATTERSON USA
4198-1995 FRITZ CARNTEN GERMANY
4199-1995 HEINRICH BASTIAN GERMANY
4200-1995 SIEGFRIED BROSOW GERMANY

We are still catching up with Members who have not yet been introduced in this column. This month, we meet”

1901-1991 DR. MATTHEW GAJKOWSKI USA
“Called Comerad MATTHEW on our 1992 trip in Russia.”

1902-1991 PARKER KIMBALL USA
Currently writing a book

1903-1991 RAYMOND T. NOWAK USA

1904-1991 PHILIP J. LOGAN USA
Desert Storm veteran

1905-1991 JOACHIM LUX USA
a Franciscan Friar

1906-1991 JAMES R. KENNEDY USA
US Navy submarine veteran. He rode USS BLOWER (SS 325) and USS BLENNY (SS 324). JIM says: “I reported onboard SS 325 as an Apprentice Seaman (the lowest rate in the Fleet!). They put me to work in the lower bilge with an oil rag, but I didn’t care. It was a great time of life. We were young and there was lots of excitement - I was in tall cotton; the year was 1946.” JIM was with us for our historic first SHARKHUNTERS trip to China in 1992.

1907-1991 WERNER KREYMANN USA
One of a very few U-Bootfahrer who did not volunteer. He writes:

“I was commanded to Pillau for a U-Boat course and training. I did not volunteer!!!! Nobody had asked me if I would like to go into the U-Bootwaffe!!!! I was forced!!!! I was commanded to the 5th U-BootFlotille in Kiel and so were several of my buddies. I was then commanded onto a TYPE IX boat with 5 civilians on board and sent on a trip to Japan. We never made it because we were badly damaged and crawled back to a little French port. After a long vacation, I was commanded to my last boat, U-3030 which was a TYPE XXI boat.”

1908-1991 KENNETH ANDERSON USA
1909-1991 GARY KATT USA
1910-1991 WALTER S. ALDRICH USA
1911-1991 COL. GARY KOSMIDER USA
1912-1991 EDWARD A. GAULER USA
1913-1991 SEN. JOHN CHAFFEE USA
1914-1991 NORM DOLASHEWICH USA

1915-1991 JAMES GIMM USA
his brother rode U-745

1916-1991 JAMES LANGFORD CANADA
1917-1991 ROBERT E. RAMPY USA
1918-1991 CRAIG HANNA USA
1919-1991 HUBERT J. McKENNA USA
1920-1991 DAVID C. BRYANT USA
1921-1991 R. S. CHWASZCZEWSKI USA
1922-1991 GEORGE KOWALSKI USA
1923-1991 DON CHALIF USA
1924-1991 PETER POHLIG USA

1925-1991 BERNARD T. McLENNAND USA
Combat veteran; BERNIE was with us in Russia in 1995

1926-+-1991 DIANE KAMMERER USA
Sadly, DIANE passed away a while ago. She was a super lady, and we all miss her.

1927-1991 PHILIP W. RAU USA
1928-1991 nobody important USA
1929-1991 FRED W. MEALS USA
veteran of USS WATERMAN (DE 740)

1930-+-1991 ANTHONY STUART MELVILLE ROSS ENGLAND
A Royal Navy submarine Skipper, his most famous boat was the ‘RELUCTANT DRAGON’ which was a former USN S-Boat that was given to England. He had written several books, signed copies of each are in our SHARKHUNTERS Library.

1931-1991 DAVID R. WINANS USA
Interested in aircraft-carrying submarines

1932-1991 DWIGHT WEIKEL USA
1933-1991 ALAN BLOOD USA

1934-1991 STEVE WILSON USA
Was a State Police Trooper; then in the ASW center onboard USS ENTERPRISE; then an air crewman with VS.37 as an airborne ASW systems operator on S-3A VIKING aircraft.

1935-A-1991 CHRIS WILLS USA
Member of our SHARKHUNTERS BOARD of ADVISORS, currently serving in the US Coast Guard

1936-1991 MAJOR GENERAL PYOTR BARABOLYA RUSSIA
Chairman of the Peace to the Oceans Committee; retired as the only Major General in the Soviet Navy! He is a Major General of International Justice.

1937-1991 PETER LORD USA
1938-1991 JERRY SILOSKI USA

1939-1991 WALT ZINSMEISTER USA
WW II aircrew member of VC.93

1940-1991 ALAN MERZ USA
1941-1991 WALTER B. GILLETTE USA
1942-1991 MARSHALL CLARK USA

1943-LIFE-1991 Prof. MATTHIAS BRüNIG GERMANY I.W.O. on U-195, a very rare TYPE IX-D1 boat; then was
Skipper of U-872 and finally was Skipper of a TYPE XXI boat. Prof. BRüNIG is a Professor of Physics & joins us for our Convention in Germany

1944-1991 MYRON BOLUCH USA

1945-1991 GüNTHER HEINRICH GERMANY
“HEINIE” was Skipper of U-960 and he always joins us for our Conventions in Germany.

1946-1991 ERNST PFEFFERLE GERMANY
U-BootFahrer

1947-1991 ERNEST NEWSUM USA
1948-A-1991 JASON PAPE CANADA
1949-1991 J. W. FRANCK USA
1950-1991 JAMES GALVIN USA


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