Pull Together Winter 2018

Volume 57, No. 1

Spring 2018

Pull Together N ava l H i s t or i c a l F o un d at i on

Five Star Mess Night and Fleet Admiral Leadership Seminar Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., USN

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94th Annual Meeting of the Naval Historical Foundation When: Saturday June 2, 2018 Time: 11:30 a.m.

Where: The National Museum of the United States Navy Washington Navy Yard Please RSVP at www.navyhistory.org

Naval Historical Foundation Questions: E-mail Shannon Cody at scody@navyhistory.org | (202) 678-4333

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Announcement: NHF’s 94th Annual Meeting

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The Centennial of Pull Together’s Name

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Chairman’s Message

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By Adm. William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.)

The Director’s Cut – Guadalcanal

By Rear Adm. Sam Cox, USN (Ret.)

The Naval Historical Foundation

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Combat at Close Quarters

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The Fleet Admiral Leadership Seminar and Roundtable

while inspiring the

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From the Deckplate

follow. We focus on

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Five-Star Mess Night

Superintendent’s Leadership and Vision Award

Call for Papers: In Country UK Membership Tour Rear Adm. Poindexter’s Oral History Farewell Vice Adm. Doyle Welcome Aboard Diana and Shannon!

Battle of Midway Dinner

Donor Thank You Holloway Society

preserves and honors the legacy of those who came before us generations who will

educating and creating global public interest about the importance of our rich naval history and linking it to today’s challenges and opportunities in the maritime domain. www.navyhistory.org

COVER PHOTO: Portrait photograph, dated February 6, 1946.

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The Centennial of the Pull Together Title!

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ith the centennial of World War starboard main deck gangway landing of the I upon us, it’s worth noting that tender USS Melville, moored in Queenstown the title of this Naval Harbor. Veterans from the two navies subseHistorical Foundation publication quently formed the Queenstown Associand program has its roots in Celebratin ation which adopted the slogan for the g title of the association’s newsletter. that conflict. When the United States entered the war, the When the association disbanded in U.S. Navy deployed ships to 1961, the files came to the Naval Years!

Queenstown, Ireland to support Historical Foundation. At that time Royal Navy efforts to combat Commodore Dudley Knox, who had the U-Boat menace. Such was the served with Vice Admiral William S. Sims harmonious cooperative relationship between in London during the war, served as NHF’s the Sailors of the two navies that a signal board president. To keep the memory of the associawith the slogan PULL TOGETHER was tion alive, NHF adopted the banner head for its displayed on the inboard bulkhead abreast the membership publication.

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Chairman’s Message ★★ ★ ★

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’m pleased about what we accomplished in 2017 and excited for what we have in store for 2018. Congratulations to our president, Rear Admiral Bud Langston, and executive director, Clair Sassin, for their management of the business end of the foundation. The attention to detail and efficiencies, combined with the generosity of our members, enabled us to end 2017 slightly “in the black” financially. On page 22 of this edition of Pull Together we thank those who provided that vitally needed support this past year.

A financially sound NHF will enable us to focus on key programs and naval history-related events in 2018.

Leadership is a major theme. Near the end of last year we announced the Voices of Maritime History Competition for the first Superintendent’s Annual Leadership and Vision Award at the U.S. Naval Academy. This Brigadewide essay contest, culminating in oral presentations by the midshipmen competitors, exceeded our expectations.

An awards dinner was held at the Washington Navy Yard on March 27 for the finalists and semi-finalists. Hearty thanks to NHF Director Dr. Jack London for underwriting this new initiative, and to our key dinner sponsors, CACI, Salesforce, VSE Corporation, and Arbella Insurance Group, for their support.

Coming up on May 16 we will host a leadership oriented academic program in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the initiation of the Fleet Admiral rank.

Also that week, on May 19, we will host a Five-Star Mess Night featuring a talk by one of our senior contemporary Navy leaders and the presentation of the NHF Distinguished Service Award (see pages 9 and 14).

As we move into the summer, we have a unique opportunity to highlight connections between the Navy and

America’s traditional sports pastime. Baseball might seem to be an atypical topic for NHF, but don’t be surprised if our annual meeting on June 2 has a “take me out to the ballpark” feel about it, as members will have an opportunity to see the recently opened “Playball” exhibit at the Navy Museum and remember that the baseball All-Star Game this year will be hosted at nearby Nationals Park.

Later this year we will turn our focus to two significant anniversaries – the centennial marking the conclusion of World War 1, and the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, one of the most intense and pivotal years during the conflict in Vietnam. We intend to mark both events with academic programming which will be detailed in upcoming editions of Pull Together.

In summary, the organization is now stabilized administratively, membership is slowly increasing and we are making strides in relevance to the Navy and the public with substantive new initiatives related to our proud history. Please keep in touch with and support us. We value your contributions, whether book reviews, historical materials, volunteering to help around the office, and of course, financially.

Sincerely,

Admiral William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.)

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The Directors Cut: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

By Rear Adm. Sam Cox, USN (Ret.), Director, Naval History and Heritage Command plished its mission in preventing a bombardment, thus keeping Henderson Field operational and playing a pivotal role in “It’s suicide,” was the reaction preventing about 5,000 Japanese of Capt. Cassin Young, new reinforcements from reaching commanding officer of the task the island, and sinking almost all group flagship, the heavy cruiser the supplies and ammunition of San Francisco, when informed of the 2,000 who did. In conjunchis mission. “I know. But we have tion with yet another brutal to do it,” responded Rear Adm. battle during the night of 14/15 Daniel Callaghan, the commander November, this engagement of a force of five cruisers and eight turned the tide of the campaign destroyers (Task Group 67.4) for Guadalcanal in favor of the assigned the mission to interdict United States – at great cost. a Japanese task group and prevent The record of valor displayed a second devastating battleship by the U.S. Navy in the Battle of bombardment of Henderson Field Friday the 13th was astounding.

Prior to his promotion to rear admiral, Daniel and U.S. Marine positions on Rear Admirals Callaghan and J. Callaghan served as President Franklin D. Guadalcanal. Based on intelligence Scott were both awarded posthuRoosevelt’s naval aide. Here he is with the reporting, both of them knew what mous Medals of Honor. Three president at the Panama Canal in 1940 they were up against: battleships.

Medals of Honor were also Young was also right: neither he nor Callaghan, nor Rear awarded to crew on San Francisco, who continued to fight Adm. Norman Scott, nor the five Sullivan brothers, nor a after the most senior officers were all killed: Lt. Cdrs. total of 1,439 American Sailors would survive the incredHerbert Schonland and Bruce McCandless, and (posthuibly vicious, chaotic, no-quarter, close-quarters nighttime mously) Boatswain’s Mate First Class Reinhardt Keppler. melee with two Japanese battleships, a light cruiser, and San Francisco received a Presidential Unit Citation, as did 11 destroyers – an action that naval historian Rear Adm. Laffey, Sterett, and O’Bannon. The crew of San Francisco Samuel Eliot Morison would describe as being like alone accounted for 32 Navy Crosses (22 posthumous) “minnows in a bucket” and others would describe as a “bar and 21 Silver Stars, and there were more on other ships. room brawl after the lights had been shot out.”

The commanding officers of all 13 ships in the battle By the time the battle was over, of the 13 U.S. ships were each awarded a Navy Cross, four posthumously. At engaged, two anti-aircraft cruisers, (Atlanta and Juneau) least 28 U.S. Navy destroyers and destroyer-escorts were and four destroyers (Cushing, Laffey, Barton, and Monssen) named in honor of those brave Sailors who fell in this would be sunk. Two heavy cruisers (San Francisco and most epochal battle in U.S. Navy history. One of these, Portland) and two destroyers (Sterett and Aaron Ward) USS Harmon, was the first warship named in honor of an were seriously damaged. Only the light cruiser Helena African-American, Mess Attendant First Class Leonard and destroyers O’Bannon and Fletcher survived the deluge Roy Harmon, killed on San Francisco. Two destroyers of battleship shells and “Long Lance” torpedoes with have been subsequently named USS The Sullivans for the minimal damage or no casualties. The Japanese lost only five Sullivan brothers, all lost aboard Juneau. two destroyers, but Hiei, one of the two battleships, was so Although Rear Admiral Callaghan’s courage has never badly battered that she could not steer or clear the battle been questioned, the appalling cost of the battle caused area, and was sunk the next day by U.S. Navy and Marine many navy leaders at the time – and many historians since aircraft, flying from Henderson Field and USS Enterthen – to question his tactical judgement, particularly his prise (CV 6). Most important, Callaghan’s force accomintegration – or lack thereof – of newer radar on some of 6

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PART ONE: The Battle of Friday the 13th, November 1942

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his ships. Some of these criticisms left no written plan and those who are probably valid, but none really might have known were also dead, takes into account that Captain but that is what happened. Opening Young’s assessment – that it was fire sooner only would have given a suicide mission – was valid. The the Japanese battleships more time two Japanese battleships had eight to find the range before the much 14-inch guns each and 95 powerful lighter U.S. weapons could inflict torpedoes (not counting reloads) any serious damage on the more aboard the destroyers. Manned heavily armored battleships, and by crews all superbly trained and crossing the Japanese “T” would equipped for night fighting, the only have made better targets for Japanese had vastly superior throw their torpedoes. Given the force Rear Admiral Callaghan’s flagship San weight. Callaghan’s own ships disparity, there is no realistic Francisco at Pearl Harbor in the wake of the were never designed or intended outcome in which this battle action early morning on November 13, 1942 to duke it out with battleships, would have turned out any better that claimed his life. nor could the technology of radar for the U.S. with or without more be a panacea for decades of avoiding realistic nighttime effective use of radar. So, in my assessment, in the face of training. Callaghan’s only hope of success was to get close overwhelming odds, Callaghan chose to attack, did his to the battleships as quickly as possible before opening duty to the utmost, and, in strategic terms, he won. fire. Whether this was his concept is unknown, because he

PART TWO: Battleship versus Battleship, The Battle of 14–15 November

fire, Washington pummeled the Kirishima with between nine and 20 hits (probably 20) by 16-inch shells and over 40 hits by 5-inch shells, which caused Kirishima to sink The tide of the Guadalcanal campaign was turned by one after midnight. Washington also hit other Japanese ships new American battleship, USS Washington, Capt. Glenn with her secondary armament, probably including the B. Davis commanding, in a brutal and near-run battle destroyer Preston. Washington then maneuvered to avoid during the night of 14/15 November multiple torpedo attacks. The loss of 1942. With the battleship South the Kirishima caused the rest of the Dakota on fire and out of action, Japanese force to withdraw, excepting and the four screening destroyers one sinking destroyer. sunk or crippled, Washington was Lee was the Navy’s foremost the only ship left of Rear Admiral flag-level expert on the integration Willis “Ching” Lee’s Task Force 64, and use of radar, and that knowledge which entered Iron Bottom Sound and technology provided the critical the evening of November 14. The edge in turning what could have been battle was a last-ditch effort by Vice a disaster into a decisive victory, and Admiral William F. Halsey to halt contributed significantly to ending the yet another major attempt by the last major Japanese push to re-take Japanese to bombard Henderson Guadalcanal. Disillusioned by their Field and land more reinforcements army’s inability to make any progress on Guadalcanal; it was a last-ditch against the U.S. Marines and stunned effort for the Japanese, too. Washington by the loss of two battleships, the single-handedly took on a Japanese Japanese navy decided to limit further Pencil sketch portrait of Rear Adm. Willis force of one battleship (the Kirishima, action to making “Tokyo Express” A. Lee Jr. by Cdr. Dwight Shepler, USNR, a survivor of the 13 November battle), supply runs using destroyers. It would December 1942 a month following the two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, November 15 engagement off Guadalcanal. never again commit cruisers, battleand nine destroyers. In a matter of The original sketch is part of the U.S. Navy ships, or aircraft carriers to the waters Art Collection. minutes, with accurate radar-directed Continued on next page Pull Together • Spring 2018

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The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Continued from page 7

around Guadalcanal.

As in the Battle of Friday the 13th, the ferocity of the engagement was such that every commanding officer of the six U.S. ships involved was awarded a Navy Cross, two posthumously. Total U.S. personnel losses in the battle were 242 killed in action and 142 wounded. The destroyers Walke and Preston were immediately smothered and sunk by Japanese torpedoes and shellfire, and were lost with most of their crews. Benham and Gwin were both quickly put out of action, but the skipper of Benham got all of his crew onto Gwin before Benham sank, with only 8 wounded on Benham and 6 killed on Gwin. The battleship South Dakota suffered a massive and debilitating power failure at a critical point in the battle. In the end, silhouetted by the burning U.S. destroyers, it took 27 topside hits, none threatening to the integrity of the ship, but killing 39 crewmen (including one Marine), wounding 59 more, and putting her out of the battle. Dozens of Japanese torpedoes missed both South Dakota and 8

In mid-Atlantic, while Washington. Washington en route to operate with came through the battle the British Home Fleet.

– and the rest of the war Photo is dated April 22, – unscathed and with 1942, over two weeks after no casualties. Given her Washington’s arrival at impact on the course Scapa Flow. Official U.S. of the Guadalcanal Navy Photograph, now in campaign and the war, the collections of the National Archives. why the battleship did not receive a Presidential Unit Citation, or even a Navy Unit Citation or Meritorious Unit Commendation, remains a mystery.

After the battle, Washington’s skipper, Captain Davis, made a profound observation: “Radar has forced the Captain or OTC to base a greater part of his actions on what he is told rather than what he can see.” Naval warfare was revolutionized.

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Reestablishing a Fine Naval Tradition

NHF Five-Star Mess Night Premiers Saturday, May 19 at Navy Museum

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Senator John W. Warner to Receive NHF Distinguished Service Award and Vice Chief of Naval Operations to Share Remarks

n the placard outside of the Naval Historical Foundation’s headquarters it states that one of the organization’s missions is to stimulate interest in naval history, customs, and traditions. In recent years NHF has focused on the former as we have promoted the works of a new generation of historians who are providing us with new insights into our naval past. However, it is customs and traditions that provide us our rich heritage.

“Mess Night,” also known as a “Dining-In” if the event is inclusive only of the members of a military unit such as a ship’s wardroom, or “Dining- Out” if guests are invited, is steeped in naval tradition; however, in the nation’s capital, this tradition has been suppressed by the more standard “rubber chicken” dinner. NHF is breaking this cycle and celebrating an aspect of our naval heritage by hosting an official Dining-Out, inviting members and friends to join with our wardroom mess – our Board of Directors – for a memorable evening at the National Museum of the United States Navy.

conduct Mess Nights ashore, typically to mark special occasions such as an anniversary, a commissioning or decommissioning, the visit of a senior officer, or simply to enjoy good company.

NHF’s Five-Star Mess Night

Following Navy Mess Night Guidelines, NHF guests will assemble in the National Museum of the U. S. Navy, beside the Constitution’s main mast one hour before proceeding to dinner for cocktails.

Attendees are requested to arrive five minutes prior to the appointed hour. At six o’clock the Mess President, Admiral Fallon, will arrive with honored guests.

Attendees may pay their respects to the honored guest at this time, or if time permits, after the dinner.

Twenty minutes before dinner, at 6:40 p.m., our musical ensemble will sound “ATTENTION.” A drummer and fifer playing “ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND” will precede the Chief Chef into the dinner area. After the guests are seated the Chief Chef, who will be carrying the roast beef, will parade around the room with the drummer and fifer, eventually ending up before Mess President Admiral Fallon. The music will stop and the meat will be presented to him for approval. Everyone will watch the ceremony as the Mess President cuts a piece of meat, samples it, and announces to those gathered, “This meat is fit for consumption.” The Chief Chef will then announce, “Dinner will be served in minutes.”

At 7 p.m., our musical ensemble will sound “OFFICERS CALL,” and all attendees except the head table party will proceed to the dining room and remain standing behind their places at the table. No drinks are carried into the dining area.

When dinner guests are in place, the head table party will proceed to their places while “Anchors Aweigh” is played. Admiral Fallon and his Guests of Honor will be the last to face their places. With the cessation of music, Admiral Fallon as the Mess President will declare the Mess Night open and announce “Gentlemen/Ladies,

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Origins

Mess Night is derived primarily from the Vikings and the British Navy. In Scandinavia, Viking clans celebrated successful raiding ventures with great feasts. The head table featured the leader at the center with others to his right and left in descending order of rank. Members of the clan who did not participate in the raid were seated below the salt, and did not participate in the distribution of the spoils. Warriors who had conducted themselves with valor or distinction were “guests” for the evening.

The Royal Navy’s unique Mess Night tradition was rooted in dinner customs created by monasteries, universities, and army units. At one time the formal dining procedure was observed nightly in the British military messes. This tradition was replicated in many American wardrooms during the 19th and early 20th century.

However, in 1914, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels’ issuance of General Order 99 abolishing the consumption of alcoholic beverages aboard ship effectively ended the Mess Night as a shipboard activity. Today naval units still

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NHF Five-Star Mess Night the grace.” After grace is offered, drinks the port until the first toast Admiral Fallon will announce is proposed. At a head table where “Seats.” the Mess President, Honored From this moment until a Guests, and other attendees are point following the toasts, there seated on one side only, a server is an air of strict formality. No will move the bottles from the guest may join or leave their right-hand end of the table back table without the permission to the left-hand end. of the Mess President. Diners After the glasses are filled, are free to engage in normal the Mess President shall rise conversation, but the topics of and address the Vice President conversation should not include of the Mess, to say, “Mr. Vice, to “politics, religion, specific ladies or the Commander-in-Chief of the gentlemen, wagers or controversial United States.” The Mess Vice issues.” Shop talk related to the President will second this by internal affairs of NHF should rising and addressing the mess, not be discussed, but matters of saying, “Ladies and Gentlemen, general naval history or interest to the Commander-in-Chief of the the service are proper subjects of United States.” Each attendee will conversation. then stand and repeat in unison The dinner will now be served. the toast (e.g., “The CommanderThe ranking guests will be served in-Chief of the United States”), first, followed by the President. sip the port, and remain standing General Mess Manual and Cook Book The waiters and waitresses will while the musical ensemble plays U. S. Navy 1902 serve appropriate wines with the the National Anthem. At the main course and with the dessert. conclusion of the music, attendees These wines are not used for toasting, as it is not proper to are again seated. (It is neither necessary nor advisable to propose a toast during the dinner. empty the wine glass at each toast. It is recommended that At the conclusion of the dessert course, and upon a port wine be sipped.) Attendees who do not drink should prearranged signal from the Mess President, the wait staff not feel any embarrassment for not doing so. The proper will clear the tables. All dishes, glasses, and flatware shall procedure is to participate in the toasting ritual by raising be removed, leaving just the centerpieces and port glasses. the glass of port to their lips without drinking it.

Bottles of port wine will be placed in front of the Traditionally, the President would then call for the ranking guest and at other points around the tables as a smoking lamp to be lighted and cigars would be distribprelude to toasting. uted. Due to venue restrictions, NHF’s Mess Night will As each attendee fills his or her own glass, he or she forego this custom. shall pass the bottle from left to right. This procedure There then follows a series of pre-arranged toasts continues with the port moving around each table countconducted in like manner. The pre-arranged toasts will er-clockwise until all glasses are charged. When passing be offered by various NHF Board members and guests. port, the bottle must never rest on the table until the last The President will recognize NHF Director’s to do so and glass at the individual table is charged, and each glass after the Director proposes the toast, the President will is charged whether the member drinks or not. When a second it. bottle has reached the end of the table and the last glass Informal toasts will be received from attendees. To is charged, it may be set down. It is incorrect for the port propose a toast, the attendee shall rise, face the Mess to change direction, so if an attendee refuses the bottle President and say, “Mr. President, I have a point of order.” on a given round, he must wait until the next round is After recognition, the attendee will say, “Mr. President, commenced. He or she may, however, pass his or her glass the _______________.” If Admiral Fallon deems the toast down to the officer who has the bottle at the moment, justified, he will direct Mr. Vice to second the toast in the although this is not considered to be good form! No one same manner as in the formal toast. All shall stand, repeat 10

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Order of Toasts for NHF Mess Night

The Commander-in-Chief Star Spangled Banner Secretary of the Navy (no music) Chief of Naval Operations (no music) Director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (no music) Naval Historical Foundation (no music) Informal Toasts (no music) The Navy Anchors Aweigh (final toast of the evening)

the toast, drink, and resume their seats.

After completing a series of informal toasts, Admiral Fallon will make appropriate remarks and introduce the head table. The guests of honor are introduced last and given an opportunity to address the mess.

Following this, the President will introduce the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Richard V. Spencer, who will offer a few remarks and then join with the President of the Mess to recognize former Secretary of the Navy and Senator from Virginia, the Honorable John W. Warner with its Distinguished Service Award.

After the receipt of that honor, Admiral Fallon will then, without rising, call for a toast to the United States Navy. Before seconding, the Vice Mess proceeds to the head table and fills each glass starting with honored guests and ending with the President. The President then fills Mr. Vice’s glass, who faces the mess and seconds the toast.

The President will stand while Mr. Vice seconds the toast.

All present rise, responding in unison, “The United States Navy,” drain the entire glass and remain standing while “ANCHORS AWEIGH” is played.

Following the toast to the U.S. Navy, the President will invite those present to join him at the bar. Attendees should remain at their places until the head table has left the mess. The bar will be open for refreshments.

Given the historic venue and the heritage associated with the event, NHF expresses confidence that “NHF’s Mess Night” will become a highly anticipated annual event in the nation’s capital. For information on how to become a sponsor or purchase tickets, visit www. navyhistory.org or contact Clair Sassin at csassin@ navyhistory.org.

New Vietnam Naval Warfare Study Available!

Combat at Close Quarters presents an amalgamation of five booklets published over the past decade thanks to a cooperative arrangement between the Naval Historical Foundation and the Naval History and Heritage Command. It represents the work of five renowned historians who describe and interpret the U.S. Navy’s major combat operations in Southeast Asia, including the Rolling Thunder and Linebacker strikes against North Vietnam, the river war in South Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, and the intelligence campaign. Over 200 images drawn from Navy archives and private collections, detailed maps, and a select list of the most authoritative works on the subject complement the concise, readable text. The chapters describe not only the actions of the warships, aircraft, and river vessels involved in one of America’s longest wars but the professional skill, dedication, and courage of the Navy men and women who journeyed into harm’s way in Vietnam. Covering both the air war and riverine combat in Vietnam, Combat at Close Quarters provides a lavishly-illustrated history of the U.S. Navy’s role in the entire conflict. Special focus is paid in this volume to the leadership of Vice Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., the Navy’s role in Linebacker, the bombing and mining campaign that helped compel Hanoi to end the war and release American POWs, as well as the Navy’s intelligence efforts in Southeast Asia, from the controversial Tonkin Gulf Incident to the end of the conflict. The work fully explains both the operations of communications and electronics analysts at the theater level and the aerial reconnaissance, SEAL, and NILO intelligence-gathers at the tactical level, whether over North Vietnam and Laos or on the ground in South Vietnam. In short, Combat at Close Quarters describes in depth the Navy’s major and essential role in a conflict that marked a milestone in modern American history. The book can be purchased through the Naval Institute Press.

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New Academic Competition at USNA

Superintendent’s Leadership and Vision Award

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HF was pleased to host a new contest at the U.S. Naval Academy. The competition promoted studying and analyzing the lessons learned in naval history to better address today’s maritime challenges.

In a letter dated October 11, 2017 to NHF Chairman Admiral Fallon, Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Walter E. Carter Jr. welcomed this new annual award program for midshipmen. The award is unique because the multi-phase judging process evaluates the participants’ ability to present their ideas both on paper and orally. For the essay portion, participating midshipmen had until February 20 to write about a broad spectrum of maritime challenges, including vulnerabilities; countering adversary capabilities; economic trade; the ecology of the seas; US naval supremacy; allied/coalition requirements; avoiding incidents at sea; and freedom of the seas, maritime laws and treaties.

Following semi-final and final screening stages, three finalists were announced on March 14, giving the selectees eight days to prepare an oral presentation. On

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L-R: Admiral William J. March 22, they made oral Fallon, Midn. 1/C William presentations before NHF’s A. Moore (1st place), Midn.

Selection Committee at the 1/C John A. Bantle (3rd Naval Academy. On March place), Midn. 2/C G.I. “Ike” 27, the finalists and semi-fiHeinemann (Honorable nalist were hosted at the Mention), Dr. J. Phillip “Jack” London, VADM National Museum of the Walter E. “Ted” Carter, Jr., United States Navy at the Midn. 3/C Anthony IannaWashington Navy Yard for cone (Honorable Mention), the award dinner and prize Midn. 2/C Kai Stormer presentations. Congratula(Honorable Mention), tions to Midn. 1/c William A. Midn. 1/C Andrew J. Moore for his paper “PrivaBilden (2nd place) teering and Cyberspace” which earned first prize and a check for $5,000. Moore was offered the podium where he discussed the parallels to the age of sail when governments offered letters of marque to merchantmen to conduct what amounted to legalized piracy to behaviors of private citizens in the present day who seem to be encouraged by some nefarious governments. Addressing the

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Top Left: Vice Adm. Ted Carter, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, presents first place winner Midshipman 1/C William A. Moore with a certificate and a check for $5000 after being announced by ADM William J. Fallon, NHF Chairman.

Top Right: Dr. Jennifer London and Dr. J. Phillip London stand with the new plaque for the Superintendent’s Annual Leadership and Vision Award. It will be displayed at the entrance to the Nimitz Library at the Naval Academy.

Left: Approximately a hundred guests enjoyed the dinner and the presentation of the awards by VADM Ted Carter at the National Museum of the United States Navy in late March.

question if the United States should conduct cyber-privateering, Moore strongly opposed the concept. Second prize with a check for $2,500 went to Midn. 1/c Andrew J. Bilden for his paper “Sea Power and Alliances: Understanding the U.S.-China Competitive Strategy.” Midn. 1/c John A. Bantle received a third place check for $1,500 for his paper “Submarine Deficit and Adversary Resurgence: A Solution for the Future of the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Force.” Honorable mention recognition went to Midn.

2/c Kai Starmer, Midn. 2/c G.I. “Ike” Heinemann, and Midn. 3/c Anthony Iannacone.

To review and select essays for the semi-final stage, NHF assembled a talented group of reviewers known for their background in naval heritage and understanding of contemporary trends: NHF Vice President Marty

Bollinger (chair); NHF Director Dr. David A. Rosenberg; Director of Naval History and Heritage Command Rear Adm. Sam Cox; United States Naval Academy Post-doctorate Fellow Dr. Scott Mobley; Raytheon’s Vice President for Defense Policy and National Security Affairs, Jason Colosky; Leidos’s CEO Roger Krone; Deloitte Consulting Principal Kathleen Purtill, Global Co-General Manager of Samsung Pay, Will Wang Graylin; best-selling naval history author Jim Hornfischer; and author, analyst, consultant Norman Polmar.

NHF thanks Superintendent Vice Admiral Carter and his staff for their support on this initiative. This Award was initiated by NHF director Dr. J. Phillip London, Executive Chairman of CACI and NHF Board member.

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The Fleet Admiral Leadership Seminar and Roundtable

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You are cordially creation of the Dr. David Rosenberg, a retired invited to attend the rank of Fleet Admiral next naval intelligence officer who year, and in conjunction with a attained his doctorate from the Five-Star Mess Night schedUniversity of Chicago before uled for Saturday, May 19 (see holding faculty positions at the page 9), NHF members and Naval War College, Temple friends are invited to attend an University, and the National informative and thought-proWar College, will discuss the voking seminar on Wednesday, uniqueness of the five-star rank May 16, to discuss the four in the United States military naval officers who attained and place it in context with the rank of Fleet Admiral: other nations such as Great William D. Leahy, Ernest J. Britain and Russia. As a scholar King, Chester W. Nimitz, and of Admiral Arleigh Burke, Washington Navy Yard, William F. Halsey Jr. Rosenberg has been able to Join us at the Navy Museum gather insights on all four 805 Kidder Breese SE, for presentations by some of this individuals and will highlight Washington DC, 20374-5060 country’s most established and very contrasting personalities up-and-coming naval historians and backgrounds, summarizing and commentary from some of the careers of the four fleet our Navy’s most distinguished admirals. leaders.

The audience will then be treated to presentations on NHF’s Fleet Admiral Leadership Seminar and each of these remarkable individuals. Dr. Scott Mobley, Roundtable will open with comments from our President, a retired surface warfare officer who recently earned his Rear Adm. Bud Langston, who will provide opening doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, is author comments on the appreciation these men had for naval of the forthcoming Progressives in Navy Blue with the history and their connection to the Naval Historical Naval Institute Press. For his case study Mobley will Foundation. After World War II, Fleet Admirals King discuss the summer of 1912, when then Lieutenant and Nimitz served as the president and vice president and Commander Leahy teamed up with U.S. Consul James led a capital campaign to build an NHF naval museum W. Johnson to exercise military rule in Corinto, a city on in Washington and succeeded with the opening of the Nicaragua’s northwest Pacific coast. Normally an obscure Truxtun-Decatur Museum across from the White House entrepot, Corinto vaulted to importance as a landscape in 1950. By that time Fleet Admiral Leahy had left the for intervention and logistics hub supporting over 2,000 White House after serving both Presidents Roosevelt U.S. sailors and marines sent ashore to protect American and Truman to succeed King in 1949. He would serve interests and prop up a tottering Nicaraguan regime as NHF’s president for the next ten years. Fleet Admiral wracked by internal revolt. During his six-week tenure as Halsey would serve as vice president during that military governor of Corinto, Leahy recorded details and timeframe. impressions of events, personalities, and U.S. policies in a Rear Admiral Langston will then introduce the personal diary. Mobley will compare Leahy’s views with featured presenters: Dr. David A. Rosenberg of the Instithose of his contemporaries and offer some surprisingly tute for Defense Analyses, Dr. Scott Mobley of the U.S. nuanced results. Mobley will conclude that these insights Naval Academy, David Kohnen of the Naval War College, shed light on the ideas and influence later fostered by James D. Hornfischer, a noted World War II naval histoLeahy as the nation’s first Fleet Admiral, Chairman of rian, and Dr. Thomas Hughes from Air University located the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and informal national security

Fleet Admiral Leadership Seminar and Roundtable

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Author James D. Hornfischer of Austin, Texas

Thomas Hughes from Air University located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama

advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman during World War II and the early Cold War. Dr. David Kohnen, the new director of the recently established John Hattendorf Center for History at the Naval War College, earned his doctorate at Kings David A. Rosenberg of the College London and Institute for Defense Analyses is currently writing a biography on Fleet Admiral King titled, Two Kings and the Navy “Second to None”: the U.S. Navy and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King in the Fifty Years War for Command at Sea, 1897-1947. With the ongoing centennial of World War I, Kohnen has been exploring the command relationships that evolved after America entered that conflict in April, 1917 shortly after the arrival of William S. Sims in London. Those command relationships certainly influenced a young Cdr. Ernest J. King serving as a staff officer under Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet, VAdm. Henry T. Mayo. Whereas during World War I the United States Navy was quick to align itself and come under British operational control, Kohnen, at a conference in the U.K. in 2016 would proclaim the U.S. Navy in World War II would truly be a “King’s Navy.”

James D. Hornfischer is not a biographer, but someone who offers biographical portraits as a storytelling component in such award-winning World War II narratives as The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Ship of Ghosts, Neptune’s Inferno, and his most recent The Fleet at Flood

David Kohnen of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island

Scott Mobley of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland

Tide. One common denominator in all of these books is Chester W. Nimitz, who took command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and stayed in command until the end of the war.

Hornfischer promises to offer unique perspectives on the attributes leading to Nimitz being a spectacularly successful theater commander.

Dr. Thomas Hughes, earned his doctorate from the University of Houston, and is the author of the recently published biography Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life from Harvard University Press. Hughes looks at the years 1914 to 1922, when Halsey served in destroyers, much of the time under the direction of Admiral Williams Sims, one of the Navy’s greatest reformers. Hughes argues that aboard destroyers and with Sims, Halsey learned most of what he ever would of naval fighting, of command, and of leadership. With destroyers, he developed an appetite for the controlled melee, a schema that had atrophied in the era of formalist battleship tactics. Under Sims, he acquired a subtle command hand and a supple sense of leadership, coming to understand that while the writ of command came by fiat from above, the warrant of leadership was bestowed only from below, and to value the latter more than the former.

Following the presentations and a short break, Dr. Rosenberg will invite the presenters and contemporary naval leaders to join a roundtable discussion. Invitations have been accepted by United States Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Walter E. Carter, Jr., and Director of Naval History retired Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox. Rosenberg will then challenge the panel to connect these career stories to contemporary experiences in the fleet today and how these perspectives can enlighten naval leadership in the 21st century.

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Naval History Book Reviews

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he NHF continues to publish our weekly NHBR e-letter as a benefit of membership. We thank those members who have taken the time to request and review books. Any questions about NHBR can be address to Dr. Dave Winkler at dwinkler@navyhistory.org. Visit www.navyhistory.org to read the full reviews. Recent postings include:

Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific

by Michael Fabey, Scribner (2017).

Reviewed by Diana B. West

Ingram’s Fourth Fleet: U.S. and Royal Navy Operations Against German Runners, Raiders, and Submarines in the South Atlantic in World War II

By Cdr. David D. Bruhn, USN (Ret.).

Heritage Books, Berwyn Heights, MD, (2017).

Reviewed by Charles Bogart

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

By Graham Allison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY, (2017).

Reviewed by Randall Fortson

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Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II

By Jeffrey R. Cox, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, (2018).

Reviewed by David F. Winkler, Ph.D.

Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade

Ahmad, Ph.D.

By John Broich, Overlook Dockworth, New York (2017).

Reviewed by Diana L.

American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction

By Craig Symonds, Oxford University Press, UK (2018).

Reviewed by Warrant Officer Darien J. Garland, USMC

Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules of Law

By Jeremy Rabkin, John Yoo, Encounter Books, New York, NY. (2017).

Reviewed by John Grady

Blue versus Purple: The U.S. Naval War College, the Soviet Union, and the New Enemy in the Pacific, 1946.

By Hal Friedman, Naval War College Press, Newport, RI. 2017.

Reviewed by Corbin Williamson, Ph.D.

British Destroyers 1939-45: Wartime-built classes (New Vanguard #253)

By Angus Konstam, Osprey, New York (2017).

Reviewed by Jeffrey Schultz

In the Warlords’ Shadow: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban.

By Daniel R. Green, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. (2017).

Reviewed by 1stLt Walker D. Mills, USMC

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In Country: The War in Vietnam - 1968

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ore than a half-century has passed since the United States began its long military engagement in Southeast Asia, the conflict known to history as the Vietnam War. During the 50th anniversary of that conflict, between 2015 and 2025, five military historical nonprofit organizations representing each service branch – the Air Force Historical Foundation, the Army Historical Foundation, the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, the Naval Historical Foundation, and the Foundation for Coast Guard History – will sponsor conferences involving scholars and veterans from around the world to provide historical context and to gain a better understanding of the service and sacrifice of the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen who fought that war. The first conference of this series was held on October 15-16, 2015, at National Defense University and was titled Violent Skies: The Air War over Vietnam.

The year 1968 is well-known for the Tet offensive, the cessation of the Rolling Thunder campaign, the Marine struggle for Khe Sanh, the Battle for Hue, greater Navy and Coast Guard interdiction in coastal and riverine areas, better coordinated naval gunfire, and air-to-ground support. Accordingly, the military heritage nonprofit partners intend to host this second of a planned series of symposiums at Marine Corps University on Thursday and Friday, November 15 and 16, 2018. Other military and veteran-related organizations will be contacted to support, publicize, and co-sponsor the event. Registrations details will be announced by July, 2018.

Scholars and veterans have been and are encouraged to submit panel and paper proposals to Matthew

Seelinger, matt.seelinger@armyhistory.org, program organizer, by June 30, 2018. Those proposing a symposium presentation shall submit a 250- to 400-word paper abstract and a curriculum vitae or short autobiography.

Panel proposals will be welcomed as well; please include a panel objective statement in addition to paper abstracts and CVs/bios.

The symposium will run on a standard flow and timeline, with plenary and concurrent sessions to accommodate a wide variety of topics and issues. Commentary from American and international scholars and veterans, including Vietnamese émigrés, will provide insights.

Veterans are also encouraged to contact the program chair about commentary or personal narrative roles that could contribute to the panels’ success. Paper and panel topics may involve any aspect of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War during 1968.

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NHF Exploring Membership UK Tour to include Royal Navy Museum and World War I Conference

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HF is offering a assassination of the Duke unique opportuof Buckingham, Jane nity for members Austen’s Fanny Price, and to travel to Great Britain Nelson’s last walk. The from November 5-10 to day will conclude at the tour the National Museum Still and West Inn at the of the Royal Navy in harbour mouth.

Portsmouth with its Following breakfast the historic ships and particnext morning, Lavery will ipate in a landmark naval lecture on the historic ships history conference titled of Portsmouth, followed by the First World War at a guided tour of the Mary Sea: Conflict, Culture Rose by Chris Dobbs, one and Commemoration at of the original divers. After the National Maritime lunch in the Midships Museum at Greenwich.

Cookhouse restaurant in The tour will be led by the dockyard, our host will renowned British naval provide a guided tour of historian Brian Lavery, HMS Victory and then the accompanied by NHF group will have free time historian Dave Winkler. to see the other museums Considered one of the in Portsmouth, including world’s leading naval the Royal Naval, Royal historians, Lavery has Marines, Priddy’s Hard, worked at the Chatham Submarine Museum, and Historic Dockyard and D-Day Museum. at the National Maritime On November 7, Lavery Museum developing will offer a talk on PortsStand in the footsteps of Nelson and Holloway! Here the former NHF informative exhibits and mouth Harbour and the Chairman renders a salute during a visit to HMS Victory in 1975 during his tour as CNO. has served as a consulSolent followed by a tour of tant on movie projects HMS Warrior. After lunch such as Master and Commander and numerous television in the Loch Fyne Restaurant in the Gunwharf, NHF’s documentaries. However, he is best known for authorship tour group will conclude its visit to Portsmouth with a of over 30 books and many more articles covering a broad harbour tour and Solent cruise in the sailing barge Alice. swath of naval history and tangential topics such as his The group will then re-board the motor coach to Greenrecently acclaimed Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life wich to either independently sightsee or participate in the Guided Winston’s Finest Hours.

World War I at Sea conference scheduled for November For the first day of the tour, November 5, the group 8-10 featuring keynote papers given by Professor Andrew will motor coach from London, stopping at Hatchlands Lambert, Professor Jan Rüger, and Matthew Seligmann.

House, built by Admiral Boscawen in the 1750s on the Costs for the trip are determinant on the number of proceeds of prize money. The group will then have the attendees and single-double occupancy. Those members opportunity to view Portsmouth harbour and the Isle expressing interest and having questions should contact of Wight from the top of Spinnaker Tower followed by Dr. Winkler at dwinkler@navyhistory.org no later than a walk through Old Portsmouth, with reference to the June 4, 2018.

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Celebrating a Half Century of Service!

Own a remembrance of one of the U.S. Navy’s most iconic warships USS Enterprise!

Find these and other items of naval historical interest at the Navy Museum Store!

Go to http://museumstore.navyhistory.org or call 202-889-2212.

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Poindexter Oral History Published

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HF has published an autobiographical oral history with the former National Security Advisor (then Vice Admiral) John Marlan Poindexter.

The book is based primarily on transcripts of interviews conducted with Poindexter in 1991 and 1992 by Robert Timberg while preparing to write The Nightingale’s Song. In this book, published in 1996, Timberg posits that service in Vietnam significantly shaped the worldview of the individuals who later influenced American foreign policy decisions during the Reagan administration. In addition to Poindexter, Timberg interviewed and profiled four other graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy: James Webb, John McCain, Robert “Bud” McFarlane, and Oliver North.

Rear Admiral John Poindexter in 1980 before his tenure with the Reagan administration

Initially, Poindexter did not agree with the premise of the book and declined to be interviewed, but he eventually relented. Since the interviews were conducted before Iran/Contra legal issues had been resolved, the narrative touches only briefly on this aspect of the Reagan presidency. Poindexter added appendices, including newspaper editorials and a bibliography of books that contain additional material taken from interviews conducted with him.

Copies of the 613-page transcript will be sent to libraries at the Naval Academy, Naval War College, Naval Postgraduate School, and Navy Department Library in Washington, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

Vice Adm. James H. Doyle Jr. passed away on February 23, 2018 at age 92. A Life Member of NHF, Doyle served as our Vice President during the 1990s, supporting then-president Adm. James L. Holloway III. A graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1947, Doyle followed his father’s career path as a surface warfare officer, 20

having command of numerous warships including the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Bainbridge.

During Admiral Holloway’s tour as Chief of Naval Operations, Doyle served as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare and was instrumental in developing the AEGIS anti-air system that is now deployed throughout the fleet. Details of his remarkable career can be found at NHF’s website where his 1997 oral history is posted.

PHOTO COURTESY NHHC.

Former NHF Vice President Remembered

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Welcome Aboard Diana West and Shannon Cody!

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NHF welcomed two new members to the crew earlier this year. Diana West (L) is our Director of Communications and Social Media and Shannon Cody (R) is our new Manager of Special Events. They bring a wealth of experience to their new positions and we’re pleased to have them aboard.

National Capital Battle of Midway Dinner set for June 3 2018 marks the 76th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway.

On June 4-6, 1942 a vastly outnumbered and outgunned U.S. Fleet defeated the finest of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the waters off a small Pacific Atoll named Midway. Their daring combination of intelligence, tactics, courage and sacrifice forever changed the course of World War II and world history.

In 1999 then Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jay L. Johnson announced that beginning with the 2000 observance, June 4 would become as significant as Oct. 13 – the Navy’s birthday. “Twice a year, we will pause as a Navy to reflect upon our proud heritage and to build in all

hands a renewed awareness of our tradition and history,” Johnson said. This year the current CNO Adm. John M. Richardson will be the featured speaker at the dinner that will be held at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. For over 16 years, victory at the Battle of Midway has been celebrated on the battle’s anniversary with a formal dinner in Washington, DC. This annual event is sponsored by a consortium of nonprofit Navy and Marine Corps-related associations and foundations including the Naval Historical Foundation. To register for this event visit www.bomcommemoration.org.

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Thank You to Our Generous Donors!

The Naval Historical Foundation is grateful to all of our donors. This list reflects contributions received during the 2017 calendar year, noting donors who gave $250 and above. Your support is most appreciated!

$5,000+

$50,000+

Mr. Martin J. Bollinger Deloitte Consulting ADM James O. Ellis Jr., USN (Ret.) & Dr. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell ADM & Mrs. William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.) General Dynamics Huntington Ingalls RADM Bud Langston III, USN (Ret.) The Honorable John F. Lehman Raytheon Rolls-Royce Naval Marine Salesforce

Dr. J Phillip. London Mr. Andrew C. & Mrs. Barbara Taylor

$20,000+

Mr. Robert C.& Mrs. Terrye Bellas CSRA Leidos Mr. William H. White

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CACI International Inc. RADM John T. Mitchell Jr., USN (Ret.) Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Victoria Wallace

$2,500+ Capital Bank

VADM Robert F. Dunn, USN (Ret.)

Ambassador J. William Middendorf II Lockheed Martin Mercury LLC

CAPT James A. Noone, USNR (Ret.)

CAPT David A. Rosenberg, USN (Ret.) VSE Corporation

$1,000+ BWX Technologies, Inc. Ms. Elizabeth Crowley

RADM & Mrs. Craig E. Dorman, USN (Ret.) Ms. Enid Storm Dwyer

ADM Harold W. Gehman Jr., USN (Ret.) CAPT & Mrs. James F. Giblin Jr., USN (Ret.)

$250+ ADM John B. Nathman, USN (Ret.) RADM John T. Natter, USN (Ret.) Orbital ATK The Honorable B.J. Penn

RADM Guy H. B. Shaffer, USN (Ret.) VADM Emmett H. Tidd, USN (Ret.) Dr. Daun R. Van Ee VQ Association

$500+ VADM Daniel L. Cooper, USN (Ret.) ADM Leon A. Edney, USN (Ret.)

ADM Jonathan W. Greenert, USN (Ret.) CAPT Harold E. Old Jr., USN (Ret.)

CAPT John E. O’Neill Jr., USN (Ret.) Dr. Barbara A. Pilling Dr. John V. Scholes

LCDR Joseph T. Stanik, USN (Ret.)

RADM Joseph G. Henry, USN (Ret.)

VADM George R. Sterner, USN (Ret.)

ADM James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.)

The Honorable Donald & Mrs. Linda Winter

RADM William J. Holland Jr., USN (Ret.) RADM Larry R. Marsh, USN (Ret.)

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CAPT Robert E. Adler, USN (Ret.) RADM John W. Bitoff, USN (Ret.) RADM Joseph F. Callo, USN (Ret) Dr. William S. Dudley

VADM George W. Emery USN (Ret.)

RADM Tam H. Etheridge, USN (Ret.) Mr. Victor Fox

ADM Harold W. Gehman Jr., USN (Ret.) GEN Alfred M. Gray, USMC (Ret.)

VADM William Hilarides, USN (Ret.)

LCDR Joseph L. Ilk, SC, USNR (Ret.) Mr. Andrew M. Jergens

RADM Martin Leukhardt, USNR (Ret.) Mr. Brian W. Martin

ADM Henry H. Mauz Jr., USN (Ret.) The Honorable Franklin C. Miller

RADM Matthew G. Moffit, USN (Ret.) Mr. John R. Peracchio

Mr. Richard M. Rosenberg Mr. Charles R. Smith

CAPT Thomas Snyder, MC, USN (Ret.) VADM Nils R. Thunman, USN (Ret.)

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The Admiral James L. Holloway III Society The Admiral James L. Holloway III Society is a group of benefactors who strongly support the goals and mission of the Naval Historical Foundation through a pledge of support of at least $100,000 over five years.

Dr. Dean C. & Mrs. Connie Allard Jr. Mr. Robert C. Jr. & Mrs. Terrye Bellas Mr. Martin J. Bollinger Mr. John K. Castle Adm. & Mrs. Bruce DeMars, USN (Ret.) Adm. Thomas B. Hayward, USN (Ret.) Adm. & Mrs. James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.) Mr. David T. Leighton

Dr. J. Phillip & Dr. Jennifer London Mr. Corbin A. McNeill Amb. J. William Middendorf II Rear Adm. John T. Mitchell Jr., USN (Ret.) Mr. Mandell J. Ourisman Mr. Michael J. & Mrs. Victoria Wallace Mr. William H. White

Members of the Society receive invitations to special events and other opportunities to engage in naval history. If you are interested in discussing membership in the Holloway Society with Admiral Fallon, please contact NHF’s Executive Director, Clair Sassin at csassin@navyhistory.org.

The Naval Historical Foundation Leadership

Preservation. Education. Commemoration.

Since 1926

Adm. William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.) Chairman RAdm. Arthur N. Langston, USN (Ret.) President Mr. Martin J. Bollinger Vice President RAdm. Larry R. Marsh, USN (Ret.) Treasurer

Directors

Chairmen Emeritus

Capt. Maurice A. Gauthier, USN (Ret.) The Honorable Steven S. Honigman James D. Hornfischer Dr. J. Phillip London Capt.James A. Noone, USN (Ret.) The Honorable B.J. Penn Dr. Barbara Pilling Dr. David A. Rosenberg Michael J. Wallace

Adm. James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.) Adm. Bruce DeMars, USN (Ret.)

Directors Emeritus Ambassador J. William Middendorf II VAdm. William H. Rowden, USN (Ret.)

Capt. Dale Lumme, USN (Ret.) Secretary

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