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Pages in category "Royal Navy officers of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 671 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Captain Frederic John Walker, CB, DSO & Three Bars (3 June 1896 – 9 July 1944) (his first name is given as Frederick in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [1] and some London Gazette entries) was a British Royal Navy officer noted for his exploits during the Second World War.
Pages in category "Royal Navy admirals of World War II" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
Last captain of SS United States, the biggest ocean liner ever built entirely in the United States and fastest passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service. United States: Yes 1910 2004 Aruga, KÅsaku. Japanese naval officer who participated in World War II. Known for his participation in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Japan: Yes 1897
John Gregson, actor, conscripted to serve on minesweepers in the Royal Navy during World War II. Used this experience playing the Captain of HMS Exeter, in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate. Alec Guinness, actor, served during World War II, initially as a rating, but later commissioned in 1941. He commanded a landing craft taking part ...
William Blair (Royal Navy officer) Edward Blanckley; George Miller Bligh; William Blight; William Bokenham; William Bolton (Royal Navy officer, died 1830) William Bolton (Royal Navy officer, died 1817) Charles George Bonner; William Booth (Royal Navy officer) Maurice Bourke; Peter Bover; Richard Bowen (Royal Navy officer) Robert Boyle-Walsingham
Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-101-0. Willis, Matthew B. 'In the Highest Traditions of the Royal Navy: The Life of Captain John Leach, MVO, DSO'. The History Press, 2011.