Happy Birthday

Members' Birthdays

by Harry Cooper


Members celebrating their birthday this June include:

2nd TOM HATTON (20-1983) Historian, and CHARTER MEMBER of SHARKHUNTERS;
15th GÜNTHER HOLLDORFF (207-1986) trainee U-416;
16th FRANK RACZ (1471-1990);
17th MARK NORWINE (452-1988) SCUBA diver;
17th VADM VLADIMIR GRISHANOV (2533-1992) former Commander of the Leningrad Naval District, now in charge of Russian Navy shipbuilding;
19th KURT KRÜGER (281-1987) crewman on U-960;
21st DETLEV ZIMMERMANN (247-LIFE-1987) veteran of U-315, now heavily involved with the US Coast Guard, and Opa to my children;
22nd CARL REICHL (1197-LIFE-1989);
23rd TIMOTHY SCHUBERT (2398-1992);
24th CAPTAIN THOMAS MALONEY (1415-LIFE-1990);
28th ART JACOBSON (2154-1992).

Members celebrating their birthday in July include:

2nd RADM ERICH TOPP (118-LIFE-1985), C. O. of U-57, U-552 and U-2513, Third most successful submarine Skipper of the War, winner of the KNIGHTS CROSS with OAK LEAF CLUSTER and CROSSED SWORDS and also of the U-BOAT COMBAT BADGE with DIAMONDS;
2nd DAVID SAVADYGA (1020-1989);
3rd SHIELA BREVOGEL (1676-1990);
4th PAUL GATZKE (1222-1989) Kriegsmarine veteran;
8th RED NORDENBERG (523-LIFE-1988) combat veteran of the American ‘SILENT SERVICE’;
8th JOE CASSANO (1218-1989);
10th NIEL CHRISTENSEN (755-1988) former SEAL sniper;
13th ADMIRAL VALENTIN SELIVANOV (2545-1992) CinC of the Main Staff of the Russian Navy;
15th Dr. (Med) CHARLOTTE-LOUISE KRETSCHMER
18th RENEE von WORDE (887-1988);
19th KURT REBS (235-1987) U-BootFahrer;
20th BILL REED (13-1983) US Navy ‘Tin Can’ vet, and a CHARTER MEMBER of SHARKHUNTERS;
23rd PROF. ZEL EATON (55-LIFE-1984);
24th MIKE EPSTEIN (5-LIFE-1983) veteran of the 82nd Airborne paratroopers and the 2nd Regiment paratroops of the French Foreign Legion, Executive Director of the International Association of Airborne Veterans and a CHARTER MEMBER of SHARKHUNTERS.
29th JOE CORLISS (991-C-1993)

From our International Family of SHARKHUNTERS Members in 57 countries - we wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And we wish you many, MANY, MANY MORE!


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