Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Each entry lists the admiral's name, date of rank, [1] active-duty positions held while serving at four-star rank, [2] number of years of active-duty service at four-star rank (Yrs), [3] year commissioned and source of commission, [4] number of years in commission when promoted to four-star rank (YC), [5] and other biographical notes.
Admirals Ernest J. King, William D. Leahy, and General George C. Marshall at the White House, 1942.. From 1899, when the Navy's Civil War-era four-star grade was recreated after the Spanish-American War, through 1947, when the Officer Personnel Act defined the post-World War II military establishment, four-star grades evolved along two parallel tracks, one decorative and one functional.
It includes United States Navy admirals that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "United States Navy World War II admirals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 233 total.
Knox's campaign against King peaked in mid-January 1944, when a draft executive order threatened to separate fleet command from naval operations by making King a five-star "Admiral of the Navy and Commander, United States Fleets," while making Horne a four-star "Chief of Naval Logistics and Material" reporting directly to the Secretary of the ...
For the Navy, the chief [56] and vice chief of naval operations [57] are both four-star admirals. For the Marine Corps, the commandant [58] and the assistant commandant [59] are both four-star generals. For the Space Force, the chief of space operations is a four-star general.
The unique office held by Navy five-star admiral William D. Leahy during World War II was never filled again, but continued to be authorized four stars until 2016. During World War II, retired chief of naval operations William D. Leahy was recalled to active duty to preside over the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the title of chief of staff to the ...
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford and Captain Joseph J. "Jocko" Clark are shown on the open bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, in October 1943. At the start of U.S. involvement in World War II, Clark was known as an aggressive commander, ready to take his group into battle. [5]
John Henry Towers CBE (January 30, 1885 – April 30, 1955) was a highly decorated United States Navy four-star admiral and pioneer naval aviator.He made important contributions to the technical and organizational development of naval aviation from its beginnings, eventually serving as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (1939–1942).