Browning, Miles, RADM

Deceased

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Service Details

Last Rank
Rear Admiral Upper Half

Last Primary NEC
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare

Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer

Primary Unit
1943-1944, USS Hornet (CV-12)

Service Years
1917 - 1947

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Personal Details

Home State

New Jersey

Year of Birth
1897

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Contact Info

Last Address Boston, MA
Date of Passing Sep 29, 1954

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Other Comments:

In the summer of 1942, Browning had an affair with the wife of a fellow officer. Together with his known problem with alcoholism, he was temporarily removed from command due to his ungentlemanly conducts. He returned to the front lines in Oct 1942, and once again became a member of Halsey's staff

Chevy Chase's maternal Grandfather.

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Unit Assignments


	1917-1918, USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
	1918-1918, USS New Mexico (BB-40)
	1919-1920, USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
	1920-1921, USS Badger (DD-126)
	1921-1922, USS Charleston (CA-19)
	1923-1924, USS Thompson (DD-305)
	1924-1924, USS Langley (CV-1)
	1925-1927, VO-2
	1927-1929, Naval Air Station (NAS) Hampton Roads, VA
	1929-1931, Commander, Aircraft, Scouting Force
	1931-1934, Bureau of Aeronautics
	1936-1937, Naval War College (Staff) Center for Naval Warfare Studies
	1937-1937, Naval Torpedo Station, Newport RI
	1938-1939, Carrier Air Group 1 (CVG-1)
	1941-1942, Commander Aircraft Battle Force
	1942-1943, Commander South Pacific Area and South Pacific Force (COMSOPAC)
	1943-1944, USS Hornet (CV-12)

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1941-1941 World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Attack on Pearl Harbor
	1941-1943 Asiatic-Pacific Specified Raids (1944)/Naval attack of Truk (Operation Hailstone)
	1942-1942 World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater
	1942-1942 Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)/Bombardment - Marshall and Gilbert Islands
	1942-1942 Pacific Air Offensive (1942-45)/Doolittle B-25 Attack on Tokyo
	1942-1942 Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)/Battle of Midway
	1942-1942 Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)/Battle of the Eastern Solomons
	1942-1942 Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)/Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings
	1942-1943 World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)
	1942-1942 Guadalcanal Campaign (1942-43)/Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
	1943-1944 World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)
	1943-1943 World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/New Georgia Campaign (1943)
	1944-1944 New Guinea Campaign (1943-44)/Operation Reckless

Colleges Attended



	1914-1917, United States Naval Academy