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[color=#000000]One of the finest & most effective WWII submarine Captains
Capt. Slade Deville Cutter, 93, Navy football and submarine hero
Capt. Slade Deville Cutter, a renowned Naval Academy football player and boxer who later as a World War II submariner was credited with sinking a record number of Japanese ships while earning four Navy Crosses, died of heart failure Thursday at the Ginger Cover retirement community in Annapolis. He was 93.
"He was clearly one of World War II's great submarine heroes and compiled a magnificent record. He was a top-flight person and an outstanding athlete, and there is no question that he is a genuine hero," said retired Rear Adm. Charles Minter, a friend, and member of the Naval Academy Class of 1937.
"His achievements are the stuff of legend," wrote Carl LaVo, associate editor of the Bucks County Courier Times, in his book Slade Cutter]
Capt. Slade Deville Cutter, 93, Navy football and submarine hero
Capt. Slade Deville Cutter, a renowned Naval Academy football player and boxer who later as a World War II submariner was credited with sinking a record number of Japanese ships while earning four Navy Crosses, died of heart failure Thursday at the Ginger Cover retirement community in Annapolis. He was 93.
"He was clearly one of World War II's great submarine heroes and compiled a magnificent record. He was a top-flight person and an outstanding athlete, and there is no question that he is a genuine hero," said retired Rear Adm. Charles Minter, a friend, and member of the Naval Academy Class of 1937.
"His achievements are the stuff of legend," wrote Carl LaVo, associate editor of the Bucks County Courier Times, in his book Slade Cutter]