The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Joseph Muse Worthington, USN (Ret.) : 1902-1986
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1682692701
ISBN-13
9781682692707
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Imprint
Naval Institute Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 29th, 1976
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
1,355 grams
Product Classification:
Biography: historical, political & militaryTrue war & combat stories
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Based on seven interviews conducted by John T. Mason, Jr., from April 1972 through August 1972. The volume contains 398 pages of interview transcript plus an index and appendices. The transcript is copyright 1975 by the U.S. Naval Institute; the interviewee has placed no restrictions on its use.
Rear Admiral Joseph Muse, U.S. Navy (Reitired) served in the Memphis, operating in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic fleets, then in the USS Tutuila (PR-4) on the Yangtze Patrol. In 1940, while gunnery officer in the heavy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), did experimental work in use of radar in cruiser gunfire control. Was CO of the USS Benham (DD-794) in World War II, participating in operations at Midway and in the Solomons Islands, rescuing officers and men from the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Hammann (DD-412) during the Battle of Midway; screening the Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings; and contributing to the capture of Guadalcanal. Toward the end of the war, he was in tactical command of a radar picket station unit in the Ryukyu Islands and in the Honshu, Tokyo, and Hokkaido area. His later career included: Deputy Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; CO of the USS Rochester (CA-124) and U.S. Planner, Standing Group, NATO, Secretary of Defense.
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