Captain George W. Kittredge   ( 1918 - 2010 ) Inducted August 1, 2008 George Kittredge graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1940.   He was assigned as an Ensign to the USS CHICAGO, a heavy cruiser, and as a gunnery officer was involved in surface action during the battle of Savo Island.   George became a submarine officer after attending Submarine School in Groton/New London, CT. and for the remainder of the war was stationed aboard submarines and involved in much combat action.   At the age of 26, he became Commanding Officer of the USS GROUPER ( SS-214 ).   After the war, he went on to be a peacetime submarine commander of Haddock and Trout, Sunfish and Sterlett and later, submarine division commander ( SUBDIV-11, Pearl Harbor ).   In ensuing years, he was the future RADM Byrd's navigator on his Antarctic Exploration and later, the military attache to India and Israel. During his tour in India, George played polo with the Royalty and was in attendance at Gandhi's funeral.   His next embassy tour was in Israel, and it was during this tour that he and another officer discovered Israel's nuclear plant before the CIA knew it was there. After retiring from the Navy in 1962, George moved back to Maine where he began his lifelong dream of building small dry submarines for the civilian market.   Kittredge Industries manufactured and sold 49 submersibles before George decided to retire from his commercial operation.   Although no longer manufacturing submersibles, George continues to market and sell plans for his two most successful units known as the K-250 (250 foot rated depth) and K-350 (350 foot rated depth).   His latest design is the UEM (ultimate exercise machine) which is a "green" human-powered submersible that can also harness the power of the wind via a sail when on the surface. K-350 Submersible UEM Submersible