Posted on 06/11/2005 4:24:48 PM PDT by esryle
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: Submarine Warrior.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Thank you, Captain Cutter.
God bless him and may this hero rest in peace. Great, great post. Thank you.
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Four Navy Crosses. Four! One alone would give you hero status. I would think it is probably the greatest number of NC ever given to one individual.
RIP
The Navy League recently advertised a book about him.
I was part of the development team that built the Ginger Cove Retirement Community in Annapolis and was privileged to once meet Capt. Cutter. Rest in Peace.
Another great man in the Silent Service rests his oars.
RIP Captain. I imagine there is one heck of a USS Seahorse reunion going on in heaven today.
The American Navy won some astonishig battles in the Pacific in WWII and the Captain Cutter's and their men had indirectly and silently, a lot to do with that.
My college room-mate had five Silver Stars from his VietNam service. I never knew this while we were roomies and I only learned about it by accident. When we were roomies, neither of us spoke about out tour in RVN. He was, probably still is, one of the toughest, mentally strong person I've ever met.
I shall have to read more about CPT Cutter. Both of these men must be cut from the same cloth. Thanks for posting.
Thank you Captain. Rest in Peace.
“Build them monuments of marble, surmounted with statues of Victory. Cut their names in enduring tablets of stone. Tell of their heroic deeds in story, and sing of them in song. Keep their memories green in our hearts forevermore. And yet we will not pay one half the great debt of gratitude and love we owe.”--General Smith D. Atkins, Commander of the 92nd Illinois Regiment, at the dedication of the Stephenson County Soldiers' Monument.
Take a look at this narrative by CPT Cutter. Amazing!!
www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/cno/n87/history/cutter.html
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Capt. Slade Deville Cutter, a renowned Naval Academy football player and boxer...and grad of the Class of 1937.
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I wonder if he ever crossed paths with Loyola College boxers?
Rest in peace.
A grateful nation salutes you.
Wow. I did not even realize he was still alive. I thought he had joined the rest of the US WWII sub aces (O'Kane, et al) on the Last Patrol in either the 1980s or 1990s.
Sailor, Rest Your Oar!
Marine general Chesty Puller comes to mind, five navy crosses.
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