Honolulu, Hawaii, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl), 1941-2011 about Royal R Ingersoll
Name: Royal R Ingersoll
Origin State: Indiana

World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas about Ingersoll
Name: Royal R Ingersoll
Inducted From: Indiana
Rank: Lieutenant
Combat Organization: United States Navy
Death Date: 4 Jun 1942
Monument: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Last Known Status: Missing

WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings about Royal R. Ingersoll
Name: Royal R. Ingersoll
State Registered: Hawaii

Death Date: 4 Jun 1942
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Cemetery Burial Plot: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Cemetery City: Honolulu
Cemetery Country: Hawaii

War: World War II
Title: Lieutenant
Rank: Lieutenant
Service: U.S. Navy
Service ID: 0-073311
Division: United States Navy
Data Source: World War II Honor Roll

Royal Rodney Ingersoll, II (17 December 1913 – 6 June 1942) was an American junior naval officer, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1934), who was killed in battle early during the War in the Pacific.

Ingersoll was born in Manila, The Philippines, and he was the son of Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, and the grandson of Rear Admiral Royal R. Ingersoll. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1934, Ingersoll served on the battleship USS California (BB - 44), on the destroyer USS Cassin (DD-372), and other warships during 1934 - 41, and he reported on board the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) during her fitting-out (pre-commissioning) period in 1941. Lieutenant Ingersoll served on the Hornet during the critical early months of the War in the Pacific, including on the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942, the Hornet's maiden combat voyage.

Ingersoll served on board the USS Hornet during the Battle of Midway from 4 June to 6 June 1942, in which the portion of the U.S. Navy fleet based in Hawaii decisively defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during its attack on Midway Island, sinking four IJN Japanese aircraft carriers.

Lt. Ingersoll was killed at his battle station by machine gun fire from a crippled fighter plane (an F4F Wildcat) from the USS Yorktown (CV-5) during its emergency landing on board the Hornet. Its wounded pilot was either unable to, or failed to, cut off its guns.

Four enlisted men on board the Hornet were also killed, and 20 more sailors were wounded in this sad accident.[1]

In 1942, the destroyer USS Ingersoll (DD-652) was named in honor of both Rear Admiral Royal R. Ingersol and Lt. Royal R. Ingersoll II.[2]

Lt. Ingersoll's father, Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, became the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet on December 30, 1941.