John L. Chittenden is the younger of two sons born to Lester and Jesse Reed Chittenden. He marries Mary Mitchell and they have one daughter together. John Chittenden serves in the U.S. Navy, attaining the rank of Captain. He outlives his wife by 8 years, dying in 2005 at the age of 94.
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John L. Chittenden was the younger of two sons born to Lester and Jesse Reed Chittenden of Massena, NY. After graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy, where he was captain of the basketball team, in the class of 1932, he served in battleships and attended flight training at Pensacola where he was designated Naval Aviator, followed by service in the aviation unit of the heavy cruiser USS Quincy and in patrol squadrons in the Hawaiian Islands and Aleutians. He was then commanding officer of Rodd Field of NAS Corpus Christi. Study at the Army-Navy Staff College was followed by staff duty with Fleet Air Wing 14 at Port Lyautey and Fleet Air Wing One in Okinawa and Japan, and duty at the Bureau of Aeronautics, then as executive officer of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in command of NAAS Sanford, FL, followed by study at the Naval War College and two years on the staff of Allied Commander in Chief, Mediterranean, on Malta. His last sea duty was command of the carrier Princeton and as chief of staff of Carrier Division One. During his active service he was awarded the Air Medal and Bronze Star.
After retirement he earned a MA at Duke and then taught mathematics for 17 years at Manatee Junior College in Bradenton, FL, During the last four years he was faculty president.
(This added bio information is courtesy of J. W. Davidson)
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John L. Chittenden was the younger of two sons born to Lester and Jesse Reed Chittenden of Massena, NY. After graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy, where he was captain of the basketball team, in the class of 1932, he served in battleships and attended flight training at Pensacola where he was designated Naval Aviator, followed by service in the aviation unit of the heavy cruiser USS Quincy and in patrol squadrons in the Hawaiian Islands and Aleutians. He was then commanding officer of Rodd Field of NAS Corpus Christi. Study at the Army-Navy Staff College was followed by staff duty with Fleet Air Wing 14 at Port Lyautey and Fleet Air Wing One in Okinawa and Japan, and duty at the Bureau of Aeronautics, then as executive officer of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in command of NAAS Sanford, FL, followed by study at the Naval War College and two years on the staff of Allied Commander in Chief, Mediterranean, on Malta. His last sea duty was command of the carrier Princeton and as chief of staff of Carrier Division One. During his active service he was awarded the Air Medal and Bronze Star.
After retirement he earned a MA at Duke and then taught mathematics for 17 years at Manatee Junior College in Bradenton, FL, During the last four years he was faculty president.
(This added bio information is courtesy of J. W. Davidson)
John L. Chittenden is the younger of two sons born to Lester and Jesse Reed Chittenden. He marries Mary Mitchell and they have one daughter together. John Chittenden serves in the U.S. Navy, attaining the rank of Captain. He outlives his wife by 8 years, dying in 2005 at the age of 94.
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John L. Chittenden was the younger of two sons born to Lester and Jesse Reed Chittenden of Massena, NY. After graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy, where he was captain of the basketball team, in the class of 1932, he served in battleships and attended flight training at Pensacola where he was designated Naval Aviator, followed by service in the aviation unit of the heavy cruiser USS Quincy and in patrol squadrons in the Hawaiian Islands and Aleutians. He was then commanding officer of Rodd Field of NAS Corpus Christi. Study at the Army-Navy Staff College was followed by staff duty with Fleet Air Wing 14 at Port Lyautey and Fleet Air Wing One in Okinawa and Japan, and duty at the Bureau of Aeronautics, then as executive officer of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in command of NAAS Sanford, FL, followed by study at the Naval War College and two years on the staff of Allied Commander in Chief, Mediterranean, on Malta. His last sea duty was command of the carrier Princeton and as chief of staff of Carrier Division One. During his active service he was awarded the Air Medal and Bronze Star.
After retirement he earned a MA at Duke and then taught mathematics for 17 years at Manatee Junior College in Bradenton, FL, During the last four years he was faculty president.
(This added bio information is courtesy of J. W. Davidson)
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John L. Chittenden was the younger of two sons born to Lester and Jesse Reed Chittenden of Massena, NY. After graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy, where he was captain of the basketball team, in the class of 1932, he served in battleships and attended flight training at Pensacola where he was designated Naval Aviator, followed by service in the aviation unit of the heavy cruiser USS Quincy and in patrol squadrons in the Hawaiian Islands and Aleutians. He was then commanding officer of Rodd Field of NAS Corpus Christi. Study at the Army-Navy Staff College was followed by staff duty with Fleet Air Wing 14 at Port Lyautey and Fleet Air Wing One in Okinawa and Japan, and duty at the Bureau of Aeronautics, then as executive officer of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in command of NAAS Sanford, FL, followed by study at the Naval War College and two years on the staff of Allied Commander in Chief, Mediterranean, on Malta. His last sea duty was command of the carrier Princeton and as chief of staff of Carrier Division One. During his active service he was awarded the Air Medal and Bronze Star.
After retirement he earned a MA at Duke and then taught mathematics for 17 years at Manatee Junior College in Bradenton, FL, During the last four years he was faculty president.
(This added bio information is courtesy of J. W. Davidson)
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