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Subject: Re: Otto Kretchmer, where are you?

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Bugg

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Date Posted: 02:38:05 10/29/13 Tue
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Otto Kretchmer, where are you?" on 13:42:30 10/28/13 Mon

A few years ago, working the Oceana NAS airshow, I made a dogtag for a lady whose last name was Kretschmer. I stopped, looked up, and asked if she was related to "Silent Otto"... turned out her husband was his grandson. Very neat to talk to her. She was a bit shocked that a youngish person knew who Otto was.. She probably should have expected that a Warbird crewmember would know at least *some* WW2 history. :)

>I was just reading >href="http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/too-big-sail-cruise
>-ships-face-scrutiny-8C11479906">this article
>about oversized cruise ships when it hit me, "Wouldn't
>Otto Kretchmer just be drooling to see that?"
>
>Otto, by the way, holds the all-time, open-class
>record for tonnage sunk by a submarine. The total,
>IIRC, is somewhere around the weight of one of these
>ships.
>
>-- Wes

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Wes
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Date Posted: 09:11:39 10/29/13 Tue

Two reactions:

1. We have the darndest range of experiences around this place.

2. Six degrees of separation . . .

Thanks!

-- Wes

>A few years ago, working the Oceana NAS airshow, I
>made a dogtag for a lady whose last name was
>Kretschmer. I stopped, looked up, and asked if she
>was related to "Silent Otto"... turned out her husband
>was his grandson. Very neat to talk to her. She was a
>bit shocked that a youngish person knew who Otto was..
>She probably should have expected that a Warbird
>crewmember would know at least *some* WW2 history. :)
>
>>I was just reading >>href="http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/too-big-sail-cruis
>e
>>-ships-face-scrutiny-8C11479906">this article
>>about oversized cruise ships when it hit me, "Wouldn't
>>Otto Kretchmer just be drooling to see that?"
>>
>>Otto, by the way, holds the all-time, open-class
>>record for tonnage sunk by a submarine. The total,
>>IIRC, is somewhere around the weight of one of these
>>ships.
>>
>>-- Wes