| Birth: | May 4, 1910
Memphis
Shelby County
Tennessee, USA | | Death: | Jul. 28, 1969
Portsmouth
Portsmouth City
Virginia, USA | 
United States Navy Rear Admiral. He attended the public schools in Memphis, Tennessee before entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1927. He graduated in 1931, receiving a commission of Ensign, and was assigned to the battleship "USS New York". In 1937 he attended post graduate school at Annapolis and concluded those courses in 1939. He was assigned as the Communication Officer on the staff of Commander Cruiser Division Five, on the flagship "USS Northampton". From 1942 to 1944 he had tours of duty on the aircraft carriers "USS Yorktown", "USS Saratoga" and "USS Bunker Hill". By 1945 he was an instructor at the Naval Postgraduate School and in May of 1945 he was on staff duty on board the battleships "USS Missouri" and "USS South Dakota". For the next fourteen years he was assigned to different ships and in 1958 he was assigned as Joint Chief of Staff, Washington, DC. Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1959, and 1961 he was made Commander of Cruiser Division Two. In 1962 he last was assigned duty as Director of Naval Warfare Analyses in Newport, Rhode Island. (bio by: Saratoga)
Search Amazon for Charles Brooks | | | Burial:
United States Naval Academy Cemetery
Annapolis
Anne Arundel County
Maryland, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Saratoga
Record added: Jul 11, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 73172399 |
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Robert Saulino, Sr.
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Thank you for your great service in preserving our country's freedoms. I will honor you in the only way that I can . . . by remembering you always. May you rest in peace knowing that you truly embodied the ideals of "Duty, Honor, Country."
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Charles A. Lewis
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