Today in U.S. Naval History - March 12 1917 - All American merchant ships to be armed in war zones 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt designates Admiral Ernest J. King to serve as the Chief of ...

Admiral Ernest J. King, stiff-necked, closemouthed boss of the U.S. Navy, promised last week that in 1945 the Navy would speak for itself in deeds, not words. This was King’s way of marking the third ...

First to sport the new five-star insigne, on the flag of his flagship* last fortnight, was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. It consisted of a cluster of five stars set so as to form a pentagon, a ...

The year ending March 1, 1945 was “without precedent in naval history.” So wrote Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King in a cold and prideful report made public last week. In those twelve months the Navy: ¶ ...

From Washington Admiral Ernest J. King signaled: “To all hands concerned with the Marshall Islands operation: Well and smartly done. Carry on.” Said Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of ...

Now the Battle of the Atlantic was history; the U.S. Navy dissolved its antisubmarine flotillas and the Tenth Fleet staff organization under Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. But as the battle became ...