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Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King. Ernest Joseph King was born in Lorain, Ohio, on November 23,1878. As a young boy he read an article in the Youth's Companion about the Naval Academy which stimulated his interest towards a Navy career. Upon graduating from Lorain High School in 1897, he was appointed to the Naval Academy by Representative Kerr ...
Born in Lorain, Ohio, Ernest J. King graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1901. In World War I, he was an assistant to the chief of staff of Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet. After the war, he gained experience in submarine operations. Shifting to naval aviation, he eventually rose to Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
By Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy, and Commander Walter Muir Whitehill, U.S. Naval Reserve. October 1952. Proceedings. Vol. 78/10/596. Article. View Issue. Comments. ON MONDAY, 8 December 1941, King received orders by telephone to come to Washington the following day. Shortly after noon on Tuesday the erroneous report of an air raid on ...
Aug 15, 2019 · Ernest J King served as the Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. King was only the second person in history to have earned the rank of Fleet Admiral, and he left a nearly-unparalleled legacy on the history of the service. Last week in our Thursday Tidings we looked at President Truman's reflections on.
A comprehensive biography of the most powerful naval officer in the history of the United States who was the controversial architect of the American victory in the Pacific.Someone once asked Admiral Ernest J. King if it was he who said, When they get in trouble they send for the sonsabitches. He replied that he was not -- but that he would have ...
Feb 9, 2017 · Ernest Joseph King was born in Lorain, Ohio, on 23 November 1878. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy beginning in 1897, including Spanish-American War service in USS San Francisco, and graduated in 1901. As a junior officer, King served in a variety of large and small ships, had instructor duty at the Naval Academy, performed engineering duties ...
Abstract. American naval policy and doctrine from 1900 to World War ll was oriented almost exclusively to the Pacific and Japan (save for World War I), an orientation thoroughly adhered to by Ernest J. King at least from the time he earned his aviator's wings in 1926. Unlike his interwar contemporaries in the Army who were either apathetic or ...
