James Lloyd Abbot junior

James Lloyd Abbot, Jr. (born June 26, 1918 in Mobile , Alabama - † August 10, 2012 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American rear admiral in the US Navy , who was, among other things, commander of the US from February 1967 to June 1969 Naval support units in Antarctica and after whom the Abbot Ice Shelf was named.

Life

Training as a naval officer and World War II

Abbot, son of sea captain J. Lloyd Abbot and his wife Helen Buck Taylor Abbot, completed his education at Murphy High School in Mobile and then attended Spring Hill College there from 1934 to 1935. In 1935 he began his training as a naval officer at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis , which he graduated on June 1, 1939 as a lieutenant at sea (Ensign) . Subsequently, it was first used on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and was then transferred to the destroyer USS Gilmer in September 1939 . In March 1941, he began his flight training at the Naval Air , base, Naval Air Station Pensacola and graduated on 18 August 1941, the Naval Aviator Badge from. He was then in charge of training officer in the Pacific stationed Advance Carrier Training Group and in November 1942 an officer in reconnaissance squadron Scouting Squadron 1-D14 before it in March 1943 Commander ( Commanding Officer ) of the 66th Reconnaissance Squadron (Scouting Squadron SIXTY-SIX) was. For his outstanding service in missions against Japanese associations in the area of the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands between November 1943 and January 1944 he was awarded the Air Medal .

In March 1944 Abbot was transferred to the staff of the chief of naval aviation training at Naval Air Station Pensacola and was there initially until August 31, 1945 as an engineer training officer and was honored with the Navy Commendation Medal for his services there .

Post-war uses

In May 1961 Abbot became the commandant of the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid

In September 1945 he became a personnel officer on the staff of the chief of naval aviation training at Naval Air Station Pensacola and then completed a fighter pilot refresher course at Naval Air Station Miami from August to November 1946. This was followed, between November 1946 and January 1949 use as commander of the 42nd Combat Season (Fighter Squadron FORTY-TWO) , and he in January 1949 Head of Department for program requirements in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations ( Chief of Naval Operations ) in the Department of the Navy ( US Department of the Navy ) . He was then commander of the utility squadron FOUR from January 1951 to August 1952 and studied at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk between August 1952 and February 1953 , before becoming a planning and operations officer in the Naval Air Basic Training) on Naval Air Station Pensacola.

In July 1955 Abbot was first officer ( Executive Officer ) on the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain and then in August 1956 operations officer in the staff of the commander of the 2nd Carrier Division TWO . He then served between August 1957 and May 1960 as lecture director of the Bancroft Hall of the US Naval Academy, before he was on May 30, 1960 in command of the aircraft mother ship USS Valcour . In May 1961, he assumed the post of commander of the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid , which under his command won the US Atlantic Fleet Battle Efficiency Pennant for the 1962 financial year. The USS Intrepid also took in the astronaut Scott Carpenter in May 1962 after he had orbited the earth three times in the Atlantic . In July 1963 he began a staff officer course at the National War College (NWC) in Washington, DC and also completed a postgraduate course in management at George Washington University , which he completed with a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Abbot then served between August 1964 and June 1965, initially as director of medium-range missile studies in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Ministry of the Navy, and was then deputy director from June 1965 to August 1966 and, most recently, from August 1966 and February 1967 head of the naval warfare analysis unit .

Promotion to rear admiral

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James Lloyd Abbot junior

Antarctic

In February 1967 Abbot took over the post of commander of the US Naval Support Force in Antarctica (US Naval Support Force, Antarctica) with headquarters in Washington, DC, and remained in this position until June 1969. As such, he was on March 30, 1967 to Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) promoted and also awarded the Legion of Merit for the first time . This award he received in particular for his achievements as commander of Operation Deep Freeze 1969 in the Weddell Sea , for research activities in the field of Kraul Mountains and for the completion and opening of the research station Palmer Station in 1968. In his honor, the named Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names the Abbot Ice Shelf , an Antarctic ice shelf around 400 kilometers long and around 80 kilometers wide, which borders the Eights coast between Cape Waite and Pfrogner Point .

In July 1969, Abbot commander of the 16th Division aircraft carrier (Carrier Division Hurry) , which in the fourth on 1 August 1970 submarine -Kriegsgruppe (Anti-Submarine Warfare Group FOUR) has been renamed. He then became Inspector General of the US Atlantic Fleet in November 1970 and was awarded a gold star instead of a second Legion of Merit. On July 1, 1972, he was initially retired, but in November 1972 as head of training development in the staff of the Chief of Naval Training (Chief of Naval Training) at Naval Air Station Pensacola in active service. At the same time, until his final retirement in April 1974, he also acted in personal union as deputy head of the department for training and advanced training of the Navy in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Abbot's first marriage was Marjorie Grubbs Abbot, who died in 1974. From this marriage the two sons of the sea captain J. Lloyd Abbot III and Admiral Charles S. Abbot and daughter Mary Neville "Maro" Abbot were born. After the death of his first wife, he was married to Margaret Middleton Pratt Abbot from September 27, 1975 until her death on December 21, 2010. After his death he was buried in the US Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis.

honors and awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of the Military Awards:

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ USS Valcour (AVP-55) ( 1946-1965 ) in NavSource Online .

↑ USS INTREPID (CV-11): Commanding Officers in NavSource Online .

personal data
SURNAME	Abbot, James Lloyd Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mobile , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 2012
Place of death	Alexandria , Virginia

[1] USS Valcour (AVP-55) ( 1946-1965 ) in NavSource Online .

[2] USS INTREPID (CV-11): Commanding Officers in NavSource Online .