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Patrol in Paradise
- 2000
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| Our group at Kings Bay Submarine Base | Captain Seigfried Koitschka on the 'scope |
Without question, the greatest SHARKHUNTERS
gathering in the US and possibly of all time!
Honored guests included Erich Topp, third most successful submarine
Skipper of WW II and holder of the Knights Cross
with Oak Leaf and Swords.
Captain Seigfried Koitschka (U-616), also with the Knights
Cross, was with us. There
were six other U-boat veterans with us on this great 'Patrol'.
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| Captain Igor Kurdin, RADM
Chernavin, Harry Cooper, RADM Joseph Peck and Captain Cherkashin at Kings Bay |
Sara Hammacher, Susan Burleigh andMeaghan
Cooper on the bridge of thethe destroyer we toured. |
America and Russia were well represented, with Captain Nicolai Cherkashin (political officer), RADM Lev Davidovich Chernavin (the last ComSub of the Soviet Navy), RADM Joseph Peck (American destroyer Skipper in WW II), and Captain Igor Kurdin (currently serving as Skipper of a Russian Navy DELTA IV boomer boat).
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Sean Cooper, Horst von Horstig, Igor
Kurdin, Lev Chernavin, |
Harry Cooper, our pilot and Erich Topp walk from our P-3 ORION. |
We visited Kennedy Space Center, Epcot Center, SubBase Kings Bay and toured all through
a boomer boat, Naval Base Mayport and all through a modern-day destroyer, Naval
Air Station Jacksonville where we toured the flightline and all through a P-3
ORION sub hunter aircraft with her crew and of course, there was the Hawaiian luau
dinner with Cooper in a grass skirt doing the hula.
We probably could have done without that..........
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