Who Is Your Virtual Capt. Named After?
 

For my current patrol, I've named my virtual Captain in honor of my Grandfather, who served in the Pacific, in the Phiippines. He passed away almost a year ago at the age of 96! I never tired of his war stories, or looking through his war photo album, which he left me.

The photos are great, and include a sunk Japanese merchant vessel in the bay, and the destruction of a communications tower. If I ever figure out how to post them here, I will!

I use my Uncles name who was shot down in a B17 over Kiel Germany. First and last mission for him.

Current commander of the USS Pickrel "John Wayne" :p

Name of boat
 

I named my boat after my girlfriend's pet name :lol:

USS Wiefus

William Bligh - Any man who suffered three mutinies couldn't be all bad.

Here's my two, I like fun names. :arrgh!: :rotfl: :lol:

USS Fishwife

USS Thunder-pants

USS Cat

Named after my girl's cat. Yes, that's what she calls him: Cat :o

Oh yes, the Captain - missed that. The virtual commander is my son, Andrei, of course.

Complaints
 

Well, at least my fiance can't complain I don't spend time with her :arrgh!:

David Y. Jones
:D

Me!:sunny:

Planters Peanuts of course.

I usually have two campaigns going that I switch back and forth.

Capt Underpants, and Capt Stubing

After my father.

He used to tell me about valiently defending the Great Lakes against the hostile Canadians in the early 60s in the USNR.

Even as a kid I thought that that was really funny.

He served on the USS DE Daniel Joy.

I named mine after my virtual me.

In SH3;Van Langen after a Gothic mideval-rockgroup
In SH4;Y.Wouters,my own name
..........Steve McQueen,some kind of actor

Steve McQueen:up: Great Escape and Bullit.....excellent movies with Steve!

John Ford :)

I like his movies.

My father-in-law, Harvey Henderson.

He wasn't in the military or anything, I just like the name. Also, he has a cool mustache.

I always just start a career and then I go back and change the Skipper Name to the "real" name of the skipper for that boat during that period.

Call me a rivet counter but I like it like that ;) Currently I am running a patrol 1943

Commander is Lt.Cdr. J.W. Coe
Boat is USS Skipjack

I even like to add the conning tower stuff, although most boats did not have them...makes me happy though ;)
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/7586/skipjackok8.jpg

A very good page for this is
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/typ...type=Submarine

Well usually I use Peter Blood or Geoffrey Thorpe. Let's see if anyone here knows where those references come from. But my latest name is a little different and there's a bit of story behind it. You see I was on shore leave oh about 3 years ago, met up with this girl a few nights. Let's just say she was rather muscular in the nether regions. Well, I pushed when I should should have pulled, and it was like ramming a brick wall. Long story short (no pun intended!) 3 years later the adverse affects are almost gone, but I cannot resist but use the name...... CAPTAIN HOOK! :lol:

Gee, I hope my Mom doesn't read this! :o