SHARKHUNTERS International Board of Advisors

PRESENT ADVISORS:

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 Deep!

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

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

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

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

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