Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet...
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Ernest J. King High School is a United States Department of Defense school in Sasebo, Japan. It was named after US Fleet Admiral Ernest King, who is notable...
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have ever held the rank: William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William Halsey Jr. Leahy, King, and Nimitz were promoted to the rank in...
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in honor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, recognizing King’s great personal interest in maritime history. The Ernest J. King chair was named and first...
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the US Senate, and on December 15, 1945, he relieved Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. He had assured the President that he was willing to serve as the CNO...
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offices of the CNO and COMINCH to be held by a single officer; Admiral Ernest J. King was first to do so, and in 1944 was promoted to the five-star rank of...
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admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Halsey graduated...
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grade of fleet admiral. The first to hold it were William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz. The Senate confirmed their appointments December...
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weapons. The loss of the battleships at Pearl Harbor forced Admiral Ernest J. King, the head of the Navy, to place a primary emphasis on the small number...
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service branch. By the end of the war each had been promoted: Leahy and King to fleet admiral; Marshall and Arnold to general of the Army. Arnold was...
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continued participation of China in the war against Japan. Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations, was a high-profile supporter of the Formosa...
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in MacArthur (1977), in which he played United States Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, and he appeared in the 1978 made-for-television movies The Ghost of...
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December 1946, in Long Beach, California) was the Distinguished Visiting Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History for the academic years 2017–2020 at the...
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Knox brought in a much more aggressive admiral, Ernest J. King. Roosevelt worked closely with King and largely neglected Knox. During the war, Knox continued...
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Kepford (two awards) Ernest J. King, 9th Chief of Naval Operations, one of four WWII Fleet admirals and namesake of USS King (DDG-41) Thomas B. Klakring...
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General of the Armies (section John J. Pershing (1919))
none came to fruition. In August 1943, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Ernest J. King increased his efforts to create a grade higher than four stars after...
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opposed by Leahy and the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, who enlisted the aid of Henry Roosevelt and the Secretary of the Navy...
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attacks on the inaction of Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the United States Navy (USN). Because King also refused British offers to provide...
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first escort aircraft carrier. As the air operations officer to Admiral Ernest J. King, Duncan assisted with the planning for the Doolittle Raid, and was the...
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apply lessons learned by the British to U.S. ships. The Board under Ernest J. King of 1940–1941 proposed sweeping changes to the secondary armament of...
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Admiral Ernest J. King (1878–1956) Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen (1972–2005) Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary (1885–1957) Vice Admiral Julien J. LeBourgeois...
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Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Ernest J. King that he would command the South Pacific Force and Area. Ghormley was...
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Lewis Strauss (category J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Affairs; Representative Carl Vinson, chair of that committee; and Admiral Ernest J. King, the Chief of Naval Operations. A proposed promotion for Strauss in...
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John B. Hattendorf (redirect from J. B. Hattendorf)
influential maritime historians in the world." From 1984 to 2016, he was the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the United States Naval War College...
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decorated officer (two time recipient of the Navy Cross) Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, first Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and 9th Chief of Naval...
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endorsement of the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, who had completed flight training in 1927. McCain passed the physical;...
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necessities of war, but there were two different plans for doing so. Admiral Ernest J. King, other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Nimitz favored...
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were: United States of America President Franklin D. Roosevelt Admiral Ernest J. King, US Navy Admiral Harold R. Stark, US Navy General George C. Marshall...
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history to have attained the rank of Admiral of the Navy William D. Leahy Ernest J. King Chester W. Nimitz William F. Halsey Jr. The first American President...
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Curry lived in Japan for several years as a child, and attended the Ernest J. King School on the United States Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base in Sasebo...
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