Members celebrating their birthday in February include:

6th TOM HATTON (20-1983) CHARTER MEMBER
6th RONALD REAGAN (1858-1991) a fair actor, a great American, an even greater President
9th BOB PANAZZE (457-1988)
10th MIKE DeCOLIGNY (3732-1994) Chicago cop
10th DAN BOWMAN (4212-LIFE-1995)
12th MARTHA RAMPONI; our Secretary
13th TOM GANNON (3820-1994)
19th MARC COHEN (166-A/LIFE-1986) USN SEABEE vet
23rd KPLT. KURT BABERG (270-1987) Skipper of U-618 and winner of the DEUTSCHES KREUZ IM GOLD for bravery

Members celebrating their birthday in March include:

2nd ‘TORPEDOMAN’ MIKE AMMANN (424-1988); USN torpedoman stuck on a carrier
7th TED DODGE (674-1988)
8th HANS SPYKER (759-1988) U-BootFahrer
9th MIKE LUEKEN (58-1984)
9th DR. STEVE TOMAN (70-1984)
9th FRANK DIETZ (1583-1990)
13th HEINZ HOCH (222-1986) U-BootFahrer
13th BOB MOHR (2134-1992)
13th RADM EVGENI ALEKSEEV (2549-1992) Main Staff of the Russian Navy
18th K.K. REINHARD HARDEGEN (102-LIFE-1985), C.O. of U-147 then U-123. Sank the first ship in American waters during Operation DRUMBEAT and so is known as the ‘DRUMBEATER’. He is the only DRUMBEAT Skipper still living. He won the KNIGHTS CROSS with OAK LEAVES

18th SGT MAJOR KEN ROUSE (1252-1989)
18th DR. DAVID TANGUAY (2375-1992)
18th ADMIRAL VITALI IVANOV (2530-1992) former Commandant, Russian Naval Academy
19th LARRY HAGGENAH (1232-C/LIFE-1989)
22nd NORMAN HARMS (2215-1992)
25th LEONARD PORTZLINE (1094-1989)

25th ARTHUR HUNTLEY (2283-1992)
USN veteran of USS F. C. DAVIS sunk by KPLT PAUL JUST (206- 1986) and U-546. JUST keeps a mobile home at the home of HUNTLEY and spends winters there. That really is ‘Yesterday’s Enemies are Today’s Friends’.

26th ARTHUR READ (2092-1991)
26th CDR NORMAN BENEDICT (3797-LIFE-1994)
26th DAWN WILCOX, our Data Specialist

30th BUD DANA (245-A/LIFE-1987) US Navy veteran; our official Videographer; head of TASK FORCE ‘ALPHA’ and is one of the world’s experts on the tunnels and bunkers beneath the homes of Hitler, Göring, Bormann as well as other systems over Europe. BUD & STELLA are Godparents to my daughter, MEAGHAN (1/4-1991)

31st WOLDEMAN TRIEBEL (197-1986) I.W.O. on U-968

Members celebrating their birthdays in the month of April include:

2nd ERNST SCHMIDT (10-1983) CHARTER MEMBER and U-Boat officer; was the roommate of HANS-GEORG HESS (125-LIFE-1985) during Commander’s School. His ‘DID YOU KNOW’ column is a standard in our KTB
5th WILMA REICHL
6th BRUCE JONES (2699-1993)
6th MICHAEL BUCK (4313-1995)
6th KPLT. HELMUT WITTE (4238-1995) C. O. of U-159 and ein RITTERKREUZTRÄGER
7th MAJOR RICHARD SMITH (1213-1989) airline pilot, US Army pilot (Reserve) racing driver
8th DAVID SANDERS (309-1987)
9th CHARLIE RICH (378-1987)
13th STUART REICH (263-LIFE-1987)
17th JOHN KAMMERER (653-LIFE-1988) ADVISORY BOARD Member (retired); rode USS BARB (SSN 596)
18th VADM VALERI GRISHANOV (2537-1992) former Commandant, Russian Baltic Sea Navy at Kaliningrad which formerly was Königsberg, capitol of East Prussia.
19th EDDIE PHILLIPS (220-A/LIFE-1986) a real adventurer cut from the same cloth as Indiana Jones
20th CAPTAIN EDWARD L. BEACH (1163-LIFE-1989) winner of the NAVY CROSS, Skipper of submarines including USS TRITON, the first submarine to circumnavigate the world submerged, author (‘RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP!’) to name just one) Member of our ADVISORY BOARD
21st MIKE TORRESON
21st TOM FLURCHICK (2032-1991)
21st FLEET ADMIRAL VLADIMIR CHERNAVIN (2240- 1992) the last Commander of the Soviet Navy; winner of the 32 POINT BRILLIANT STAR; winner of HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION; Member of our ADVISORY BOARD
23rd WILHELM HöHN (789-1988) retired US Army Colonel
26th PETER PETERSEN (1133-A-1989) he rode U-518
27th Oblt. HERMANN HOFFMANN (1365-1990) Was the I.W.O. then was the last Skipper of U-172
28th AUGUSTINE DELA CRUZ (4772-1996)
29th MAJ. LUCINDA WINGFIELD (4694-1996) US Army

From our International Family of SHARKHUNTERS Members in 61 countries - we wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And we wish you many, MANY, MANY MORE!