Ernest King

About Me: I was born in Lorain, Ohio on the 23 of November in 1878.  From 1897 to 1901 I attended the U.S. Naval Academy, where I attained the highest possible rank of Cadet Lieutenant Commander during my senior year.  In the academy I served on the USS San Francisco during the Spanish-American War.  Then I transfered to a series of new ships for a while, after which I met Martha Rankin Egerton, whom I married on October 10, 1905.  We had six daughters, Claire, Elizabeth, Florence, Martha, Eleanor, and Mildred, and one son; Ernest King, Jr.

     After numerous more assignments, and the occupation in Veracruz, World War one broke out. I was then assigned to a "modern" warship. I was soon transfered, again, to an English warship where I saw occasional action. Through the agonizing period with the British I was eventually awarded the Navy Cross, for my assistant supervision. I spent the rest of the war in a sub, and then a new U.S. law made it so that I had to go to aviation school in order to hold a position of authority amoung the U.S. fleet. It paid off and I became the captain of the U.S.S. Lexington. Once again I had to go back to the Naval college, and soon after my superior officer died in the crash of Akron in April of 1933, I inherited a nationally recognized seat as the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. In 1938 I was promoted to Vice Admiral, but soon after I was appointed to the General Board, where I waited for retirement.

     When the second world war broke out, Admiral Harol Stark realized my talent for command.  Stark appointed me as Commander-in-Chief, of the Atlantic fleet in the fall of 1940, and I was again promoted to Admiral on February 1941. On the 30th of December in 1941 I became Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet.  I was soon appointed Chief of Naval Operations, relieving Admiral Stark. In the December of 1944 I was promoted to the rank of Fleet Admiral. I retired in December of 1945, but was recalled as an advisor to the Secretary of the Navy in 1950. Throughout my service I recieved a total of 24 medals and awards, 10 of them being from the U.S.

MySpace URL: www.myspace.com/seadog101

My Mood: Exhausted yet Eager.

My Hobbies: Drinking, being grumpy.

My Interests: Naval command, Strategy.

My Heroes: Douglas Macarthur

My Favorite Saying: "Historically... it is traditional and habitual for us to be inadequately prepared. Thus is the combined result of a number factors, the character of which is only indicated: democracy, which tends to make everyone believe that he knows it all..."

Me on the Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_King

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