Ralph L. Shifley

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Ralph Louis Shifley (born October 26, 1910 in Mounds , Pulaski County , Illinois , † January 5, 1995 in Washington, DC ) was an American Vice Admiral in the US Navy , who was last Deputy Chief of Naval Operations between 1970 and 1971 .

Life

Training and use as a naval officer in World War II

Shifley joined the US Navy in 1929 after school and graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis , which he graduated in 1933. After he initially was used on the Omaha class belonging light cruiser USS Memphis and then from 1934 to 1936 the USS Astoria , a heavy cruiser of the New Orleans class . He then completed in 1937 a pilot training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola ( Naval Air Station Pensacola ) and was 1938 to 1940 as a pilot in the plane unit of the light cruiser USS Savannah used before 1940-1942 instructor at the Naval Air Station (Naval Air Station) of Jacksonville was and at the same time attended the Naval Air Gunners School in Hollywood .

Subsequently, Shifley was between 1942 and 1943 air combat training officer in the chief's staff for operational training of naval aviators and from 1943 to 1944 commanding officer of bomber squadron 8. After that he was briefly commodore of Air Group 8 on the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill and took participated in numerous skirmishes and combat missions in New Guinea in the Pacific War , the Battle of Saipan , the Battle of Guam (1944), the Battle of the Palau Islands and the liberation of the Philippines .

post war period

After one he was superintendent for aviation training at the Jacksonville naval air base between 1945 and 1947 and first officer ( executive officer ) and air officer on the aircraft carrier USS Randolph from 1947 to 1948 . He then served as an operations officer on the USS Leyte , an Essex-class aircraft carrier , between 1948 and 1949 , and as an operations officer on the staff of the Air Force Commander of the US Atlantic Fleet from 1949 to 1951 .

Shifley was from 1951 to 1952 graduate of the Naval War College in Newport and found then to 1954 using the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Department of the Navy ( US Department of the Navy ) , where he worked on aircraft programs. After a use from 1954 to 1956 on the staff of the US 6th Fleet , he was from 1956 to 1957 Commanding Officer of the USS Badoeng Strait , an escort carrier of Commencement Bay class . He was then used again in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1957, whose administrative assistant and chief aide-de-camp he was between 1957 and 1958.

Rise to Vice Admiral and Awards

In 1958 Shifley was Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and then from 1959 to 1960 first Vice Director and then between 1960 and 1962 director of the Department of Aviation Planning in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. During this time he was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1961 .

Thereupon took place on May 1, 1962 his appointment as commander of the aircraft carrier division 7 (Carrier Division Seven) with the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk as flagship , before he returned in 1963 to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and there both deputy of the chief for naval material for programs as well Vice-Chief of Naval Materials and Deputy Chief of Naval Materials for Programs and Financial Management. At times he was also the commander of Task Force 77, the reaction force of the 7th US Fleet .

Most recently, he was Vice Admiral Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics (Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics)) in 1970 and was fourth in the naval hierarchy. He retired in 1971. During this time his wife on April 23, 1970 was godmother at the launching of the USS Savannah , a replenishment oiler of Wichita class .

For his many years of service, Shifley has received several awards, including the Navy Cross , the Distinguished Flying Cross with three gold stars, the Air Medal , the Presidential Unit Citation , the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with five operational stars, the World War II Victory Medal , the National Defense Service Medal, and the Philippine Liberation Medal .

Shifley died of complications from cancer . In his honor, a series of lectures named after him (Viceadmiral Ralph L. Sifley Lectures) was introduced at the US Naval Academy in 2013 .

publication

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commander Carrier Division Seven Rear Adm. Ralph L. Shifley
  2. ↑ Senior US Navy Leaders, December 31, 1970
  3. ^ Naval Academy Announces New Museum Lecture Series on the homepage of the US Naval Academy of September 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Shifley, Ralph L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shifley, Ralph Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military, Vice Admiral in the United States Navy
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Mounds , Pulaski County , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1995
Place of death Washington, DC