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Rindskopf, Maurice, RADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Brooklyn
Last Address Annoplis, Maryland
Date of Passing Jul 27, 2011
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, Pacific Ocean
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Retiring from the Navy in 1972, Rindskopf worked for Westinghouse for 16 years.
Other Comments:
As second-in-command (Executive Officer) of Drum in June 1944, just prior to Drum's tenth patrol, the incumbent commanding officer developed gall stones. Rindskopf wrote of it in an unpublished autobiography:
I was given two choices: To take command, or to break in yet another skipper. The decision was easy, and I became the first in the [U.S. Naval Academy] class of 1938 to command a fleet boat on patrol.[1]
During his first patrol in command Rindskopf only came across targets too small for a torpedo. He sank them by gunfire and brought the survivors aboard, putting them to work in the galley (kitchen). They became Drum's cooks.[4]
Drum did not sink another ship in World War II following Rindskopf's detachment.
