Happy Birthday

Sharkhunter Members

by Harry Cooper


Members celebrating their birthdays in September include:

2nd HARRY COOPER (I-LIFE-1983)
3rd Dr. VERCIEL SENSEMAN (692-1988)
4th MICHAEL WEBER (3239-1993)
7th ANTHONY PHILLIPS (436-L]IFE-1988)
13th DENNIS POSTYL (729-1988)
15th ART AYDELOTTE (787-CALIFE-1988)
16th WALTER KERN (our German translator)
17th WILLIAM LEHMBECK (295-1990)
17th HANNES ESKEN (1601-1990) Luftwaffe Major
17th AL REICHERT (3744-1994)
18th GERD DIETRICH (5923-19") German artilleryman
20th MIKE HOWELL (174-LIFE-1986) Kiwi Fire Captain
20th JAMES KLINE (300-A/LIUFE-1987)
22nd Dr. COLEMAN SESKIND (2360-1992) Model builder
25th PETER HANSEN (251-LIFE-1987) U-boat officer & Abwehr agent; writes 'Peter's Periscope'
27th HARRY HALL (1547-1990)
27th ROLAND BURILL (3710-1992) WWII American sub veteran; 4 patrols on USS ICEFISH
28th BELL HOLMAN (2146-1992) my nephew
28th RADM VALERI BOBROVSKY (2540-1992)
30th SUSAN BURLEIGH (5885-1999)

Members celebrating their birthdays in October include:

1st THOMAS GALLIS (5112-1996)
2nd Monika Hansen (PETER's wife)
4th FREDERICK CHANG (772-1988)
6th MARK PEARSON (1881-LIFE-1991)
8th Prof. THOMAS MACKIN (146-A-1995)
10th DAN WOLFE (91-1985)
10th GEORGE R. O'CONNELL (3544-1994)
11th MARK 'Swede' ERICKSON (5233-LIFE-1987)
12th MATT NICOLAI (5208-1997)
16th GEORG HOGEL (240-LIFE-1987)
16th OTTO von BULOW (305-LIFE-1987)
17th STUART DAVIS (5964-2000)
21st EDWARD HSIAO (5779-1999)
23rd EDDIE RUMPF (179-1986)
25th JONATHAN FINDLEY (1743-C/LIFE-1991)
27th Dr. JAMES J. CARROLL (2391-1992)
29th DONALD PEARSON (4373-1995)
30th DAVID BLUETT (81-C-1984)
31st Dr. THAD LAYTON (450-1988)

Members celebrating their birthdays in November include

2nd NEIL SELMER (858-LIFE-1988)
5th GERHARD RICHTER (214-LIFE-1986) Radioman on U-81 when they sank HMS ARK ROYAL, then Skipper of his own one-man BIEBER submarine
6th GARY KRAISINGER (1467-1990)
6th VOLKMAR KONIG (5428-1997) Midshipman on U-99 under Kretschmer on the final patrol. (photo top right)
7th VADM KOMORAV (1959-1991) former Deputy Chief of the Soviet Navy
9th SEAN COOPER (1/2-987) my son
12th Wm. NAPIER (2290-C/LIFE-1992)
14th LEN DUCA (5875-1990)
15th RADM SMIRNOV (2088-1991)
18th GERD THATER (194-LIFE- 1986), Advisory Board Member, Skipper of U-466 & U-3506. Photo bottom right)
18th ANATOLIY SMAL (2073-1991)- former Chief of Intelligence of the Soviet Navy.
21st JIM VIZIGIAN (29-1984), he watched the U-boats as they came in to the US Navy SubBase to surrender.
22nd WILLIAM GUCKES (1531-1990)
24th BILL BRANDT (919-1989)
26th Admiral VLADIMIR EGOROV (2535-1992), former CinC of the Soviet Baltic Sea Fleet.
26th ED HENDERSON (4920-1996)
28th JAMES KENNEDY (1906-1991) vet of USS BLOWER
29th TONY GALAZ (959-LIFE-1989)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from our International Family of more than 6,400 Members in 70 countries - we wish you MANY MORE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from our international family in 70 countries, and we wish you many, MANY MORE!


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