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SHARKHUNTERS International
Board of Advisors
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SHARKHUNTERS
International
Board of Advisors
For decades, Sharkhunters International has resorted to a Board of Advisors to
help guide us forward. They include:
PRESENT ADVISORS:
* David Mobley
* Victor Turon
* Mathew Hall
* Harold Gay
* Christopher Banda
* Rich delFavro
* Mary Myers
* Loren Charles
* James Kennedy; U. S. Navy submarine
veteran
* Captain Mickey Gaverick
* Dr. Thad Layton
* Carl Reichl
* Kevin Niebuhr; Police officer
* Meaghan Cooper
Meaghan Cooper
* Chaz Pityk
* Craig Smith
* Dr. Charles Ellis
* Harry Hall
* Col. Cal Delaplain
* Troy Strother
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Founder and President
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FORMER
ADVISORS:
Our Sharkhunters Advisors serve only ten years and new ones are appointed
annually.
These are our
previous Advisory Board Members:
* John Kammerer
He rode USS BARB
(SSN 596)
* Captain Robert Thew +
Naval Intelligence during
his Navy hitch, then NSA for years
* John Ryan +
U.S. Navy EOD in Vietnam
* Oberleutnant zur See d.R. Hans Georg Hess
+
Knights Cross
Commander U-995
and at barely 21 years of age, the youngest combat submarine Skipper of WW II
* Professor Zel Eaton
Former Spook
* Edward Rumpf
Expert on the Eismeer boats
* Forrest Dana Leading
world expert on the tunnels, bunkers etc. built by Germany in the war
* Jude Stackpole, PhD +
Was unraveling secrets of
the codes that were given to the British but died in a motorcycle crash
* Dr. Warren Brown
* Arthur Aydelotte
U.S. Navy veteran
* William Custer
* Fleet (5 star) Admiral Vladimir Chernavin
Hero of the Soviet Union
Last supreme commander of
the Soviet Navy
* Captain Edward L. Beach
+
Navy Cross
Submarine Commander and
author of several books including "Run Silent; Run Deep!"
Hans Georg Hess
"Ned" Beach
Vladimir Chernavin
These two men, Hess and Beach - former enemies - met and became friends at a
Sharkhunters Convention!
* Flotillenadmiral Otto Kretschmer
+
Knights Cross with Oak Leaf
and Crossed Swords
Commander of U-23
and U-99, the TOP submarine Skipper of World War II
* James Kline
* Gerhard Richter +
Radioman aboard
U-81 when they sank the aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL
Otto Kretschmer
Gerhard Richter
* Chris Wills
U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard veteran
* Rear Admiral Gene Fluckey
+
Medal of Honor
Commander USS BARB
(SS 220) and with the Medal of Honor,
four Navy Cross medals
and much, much more he's the most highly decorated American submariner in
history
* Marc Cohen
* Fregettenkapitän Gerd Thäter
+
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Commander of U-466
Gene Fluckey
Gerd Thäter
* Professor Thomas Mackin
* Eddie Phillips
* Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Werner
Commander of several
boats; wrote "Iron Coffins"
* Wayne Pickels
Silver Star
Part of the crew of
USS PILLSBURY, Wayne was in the first boarding party that captured
U-505
Herbert Werner
Wayne Pickels
* Admiral (4 stars) Frank Kelso
Former CNO U.S. Navy
* Robert Panazze
* Captain Peter Chelemedos
Merchant Skipper - sunk
in both oceans during World War II
* Captain Guy Goodboe
* Major Lou Mari
Highly decorated Green
Beret veteran of Vietnam
* Peter Hansen
Kriegsmarine and Abwehr veteran
* Major Dick Smith +
U.S.. Army pilot
(Retired), world class sports car racer
* Gerhard Dietrich +
Oberfeuerwerker with von
Manstein's Army in the Crimea
Dick Smith
Gerhard Dietrich
* Joseph Burges +
Englishman came to the U.S. and joined the Navy; U.S. combat submarine veteran
* Detlev Zimmermann He rode
U-315
* Brian Orlando
* David Savadyga +
US. Air Force
* Myron Blahey
* Emilie Caldwell-Stewart
World renowned expert on
signatures of Third Reich personalities
* Oberleutnant zur See "Hai" Maßmann +
Commander U-409
* Tilman Hess; Attorney and son of Hans
Georg Hess
* Bill Reed; U.S. Navy destroyer
veteran +
* Bill Olsen
* Professor Reneé von Wörde PhD +
* Oberleutnant zur See Günther Heinrich
Commander U-960,
the last boat safely through Gibraltar
* Sgt. William Napier, USMC combat vet; two tours in Vietnam
* John Buck
Günther
Heinrich
"Mad" Max Rieske
BILL NAPIER
* Lt. Col. "Mad" Max Rieske, U.S. Army (Ret)
* Michael Lingner; Police officer
* Steve Shock
* John Zaro
* C. J. Christ; Well published researcher
and writer on the U-Bootwaffe