Happy Birthday

Sharkhunter Members

by Harry Cooper


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.
6th GARY KRAISINGER (1467-1990)
6th VOLKMAR KÖNIG (5428-1997) Fähnrich on U-99
7th VADM KOMORAV (1959-1991)Former Deputy Chief of the Soviet Navy.
9th SEAN COOPER (½-LIFE-1987) My son.
9th JOHN GESTRICH (3684-2000)
12th WILLIAM NAPIER (2290-C/LIFE-1992) US Marine
14th LEN DUCA (5875-1999)
15th RADM SMIRNOV (2088-1991) Peace to the Oceans.
18th Fregattenkapitän GERD THÅTER (194-LIFE-1986). Skipper of U-466 and U-3506.
18th ANATOLIY SMAL (2073-1991) Former Chief of Intelligence, Soviet Navy
21st JIM VIZIGIAN (29-1984) USN Signalman, watched the U-Boats coming in to Portsmouth at the end of the war.
22nd WILLIAM GUCKES (1531-1990)
24th WILLIAM BRANDT (919-1989)
26th VADM EGOROV (2535-1992) Former CinC, Soviet Baltic Sea Fleet
26th ED HENDERSON (4920-1996)
28th JIMMY KENNEDY (1906-1991) Combat veteran, USS BLOWER – and tequila connoisseur.
29th TONY GALAZ (959-LIFE-1989) Always supportive!

Members celebrating their birthdays in December include:

4th GEORGE PAPPAS (4761-LIFE-1996)
4th FRANK BARRY MONROE (4775-1996) was with us in Germany this past “Patrol”.
6th ROLF ROSELLEN (2985-LIFE-1993) U-Bootfahrer who was with us in Germany this past “Patrol”
9th WILLIAM HARM (836-1988)
11th JOHN DOERING (2341-1992)
16th ED HARGROVE (2074-1991) Former Super Bowl Champion linebacker, Pittsburgh STEELERS; was with us in Germany this past “Patrol”.
17th GEORGES-EMIL CHASSAING (5088-1996)
18th JAMES TRAINOR (1705-1990)
24th FRANK WEINGART (842-1988)
26th MAX HITE (5185-1997)
28th PAUL WAGNER (2037-LIFE-1991)
29th Captain SPENCER SLATE (1567-1990) Owner of the Atlantis Dive Center

Members celebrating their birthdays in January include:

1st Major General PYOTR BARABOLYA (1936-1991), Chairman of the Peace to the Oceans Committee
3rd Admiral MARIO BAROGLIO (1048-1989) Italian submarine Skipper
9th JULIANNE HESS (621-1988) Daughter of H-G HESS
9th JOACHIM LUX (1905-1991) Franciscan friar
9th MIKE LEACH (4145-1995)
13th RICHARD EATON (5501-1998)
13th MILTON HAYNES (5681-1998) 3rd Armored Division
16th D. L. MICHAELSON (1060-1989)
20th GÜNTHER HEINRICH (1945-LIFE-1991) Skipper of U-960, the last U-Boat to successfully penetrate Gibraltar
20th ERNIE MYETTE (3945-1994) USN Veteran
21st JOE McCULLOUGH (4963-C/LIFE-1996)
22nd IGOR KURDIN (6015-2000) DELTA IV Skipper

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


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