10 YEARS AGO in our KTB

In KTB #26 we finished ‘JAPAN’S SECRET WAR’ by ROBERT WILCOX (25-1984) and we saw why there were so few Japanese tried for war crimes compared to Germany, and how Russia got such a head start on atomic bomb development. We announced that the official SHARKHUNTERS emblem (see it on our letterhead and on the front cover of each KTB Magazine) was the suggestion of TOM HATTON (20-1983). We asked the Members to contact their legislators to kill a bill that would make it a crime to dive on wrecks of any kind off the coast of the United States. The sponsors of the bill said that ‘it would be for our own good’. That scares the hell out of me when the government says they are doing something for my own good. JOHN LOFTUS (40-1984) was trying to find information if any U-Boats took stocks or bonds or currency out of Germany at the end of the war. Questions of this nature will be answered by the letter from DON ANGEL ALCAZAR de VELASCO (158-+-1985) and all the documents we will present afterwards. It will open eyes for sure! DON PERRYMAN (56-1984) sent us a note that a huge collection of photographs, taken by Heinrich Hoffmann, had just been discovered in an old trunk in a small town in British Columbia, Canada.

KTB #26 was only 6 pages long. Compare that with today’s computer-set KTB Magazine of 40 pages.

5 YEARS AGO in our KTB

KTB #73 featured U-47 and the story of Günther Prien. This issue even had a center-fold; but it was U-47, not a model in a swimsuit. We were running the story by OTTO GIESE (45-1984) in this issue as well as the story by BOB MAHER (221-1986). We ran a story about Germany’s claims in the Antarctic. It was reported that famed Aviatrix Laura Ingalls was a German spy. There was a story by KEVIN PETRIELLO (535-1988) about Italy’s best submarine Skipper, Carlo Fecia diCossatto. The log of I.J.N. I-8 was translated by FRED CHANG (772-1988).