Re: UK Learning To Fly Off Big Decks Again

"TMOliver" <tmoliverjrFIX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgioHIRYU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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TMOliver ha scritto:
(and even an ancient ASW specialist from the West German Marine, a former
UBoater named Kretschmer),

"Silent Otto" Kretschmer ???

That's the one. As late as 1964, he was still on active service. In
retrospect, he wasn't that old then, but then my last CO, 1965, had been a
21 year old dive bomber pilot in 1944, and seemed immeasurably old at 42.

Oh, to be 42 again. Kretschmer must have been 50 or a little more in '64.

I saw him sometime in the seventies - and he still looked remarkably
young and smooth-faced. It was a couple of years after he retired so
I guess he must have been in his sixties then. Gave an excellent talk
- his English was quite good - with a lot of sly humour thrown in.
Came across as a very modest sort of man.

Eugene L Griessel

You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.
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