Jonas H. Ingram
Jonas H. Ingram , also Jonas Howard Ingram , (born October 15, 1886 in Jeffersonville , Indiana , † September 9, 1952 in San Diego , California ) was an American admiral in the United States Navy during World War II and after.
biography
Training and First World War
Ingram attended Jeffersonville High School and the Culver Military Academy . He served in the US Navy from 1903 to 1947. He studied from 1903 to 1907 as a midshipman (officer candidate) at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland and was very active in sports and 1915/16 head coach of the academy. In 1914 he received the Medal of Honor in the war in the Mexican Revolution on landing in Veracruz , Mexico. In 1915 he became a lieutenant and he served on several battleships, cruisers and destroyers. He was on duty in the Atlantic Fleet during World War I.
Interwar period
In 1924 he commanded the destroyer USS Stoddert (DD-302) and in 1926 the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) . From 1926 to 1930 he was the sports director of the Naval Academy. He was then press officer and then adjutant to the US Secretary of the Navy . In 1935 he was promoted to captain and commanded the 6th Destroyer Squadron and then the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) in the Pacific. In 1941 he was promoted to Rear Admiral and he was in command of Task Force Three in the Atlantic,
World War II and after
During the Second World War , Ingram commanded the South Atlantic Force (4th Fleet) as Vice Admiral from late 1942 . He was from November 1944 to 1946 Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet Forces Command, succeeding Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll . In November 1944 he was promoted to (four-star) admiral. Among other things, he commanded Operation Teardrop between April and May 1945 , which led to the loss of five German submarines. In 1945 he was in command of the US Atlantic Fleet on the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) as his flagship.
In 1947 - after his retirement - he became the commissioner of the All-America Football Conference .
He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Works
- An Air-Minded First Line of Defense , 1938
- Why the Battleship? , 1934
Honors (selection)
- Distinguished Service Cross
- Navy Cross (around 1917/18)
- Navy Distinguished Service Medal (3 ×)
- Medal of Honor
- Purple heart
- Order of Merit, Grande Official (Brazil)
- Order of the British Empire : Knight Commander
- The destroyer USS Jonas Ingram (DD-938) was named after him in 1957.
swell
- R. Manning Ancell, Christine Miller: The Biographical Dictionary of World War II Generals and Flag Officers . The US Armed Forces. Westport, Connecticut, ISBN 0-313-29546-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ingram, Jonas H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ingram, Jonas Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jeffersonville , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1952 |
| Place of death | San Diego , California |