Charles Turner Joy

Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (1951)

Charles Turner Joy (born February 17, 1895 in St. Louis , Missouri , † June 6, 1956 in San Diego , California ) was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War .

Life

Turner Joy graduated from the United States Naval Academy from 1913 to 1916 and was then taken on as an ensign in active service in the Navy. He spent the next four years on board the USS Pennsylvania and was also stationed in European waters. After his engineering training, he became a staff member of the Yangtze Patrol in 1923 . In the following years he became executive officer of the destroyer Pope , a member of the Bureau of Ordonance and spent some time on the battleship USS California and in the Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown , Virginia . In the mid-1930s, now promoted to Commander , Turner Joy was Commanding Officer of Litchfield and a staff member of Commander Destroyer, Battle Force.

From 1937 to 1940 he returned to the Naval Academy as an instructor, was then transferred to the Indianapolis and from 1941 to the operations officer of the commander of the reconnaissance forces of the Pacific Fleet. After the United States entered World War II , he served on the planning staff for operations against Japan for several months .

For Captain transported, he commanded from September 1942 to June 1943 the heavy cruiser Louisville during the Aleutian Islands Campaign and the South Pacific. After serving on the planning staff in Washington , he was promoted to Rear Admiral, commander of a destroyer division, which he commanded for almost a year. At the time of the Japanese surrender , Turner Joy was in command of an amphibious group and was soon ordered to China. From 1946 to 1949, the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren , Virginia was under him .

When the Korean War began in 1950, he was Commander Naval Forces, Far East with the rank of Vice Admiral and took part in 1952 as envoy to the armistice negotiations with North Korea. He documented his experiences in the negotiations in his book How Communists Negotiate ( How Communists negotiate ). From 1953 to 1954 he was then head of the Naval Academy.

After his retirement in 1954, Turner Joy moved to La Jolla , California, where he spent the rest of his life. He died in the Naval Hospital in San Diego and is buried in the Naval Academy cemetery.

The destroyer USS Turner Joy was named in his honor.

Works

• Charles Turner Joy: How Communists Negotiate . Macmillan, New York, 1955

Web links

Commons : Charles Turner Joy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography history.navy.mil (English)
• Charles Turner Joy in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)