Linwood “Tick” Thumm, a 100-year-old Coast Guard WWII veteran, poses for a photo in his home, Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2015. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert
Coast Guard 5th District personnel will celebrate and honor Linwood “Tick” Thumm on the day marking 100 years of his life.
Mr. Thumm commanded an 83-foot cutter based out of Little Creek who spent the first part of WWII escorting convoys from New Jersey to Cape Hatteras, N.C. He and his crew were credited with a possible kill of a German U-boat and were also commended for saving the lives of an oil tanker crew during a fire. Thumm’s crew used a net they fashioned from sheets and blankets to catch survivors as they jumped from the burning tanker.
