King, Jerome H. Jr., VADM

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Final Rank
Vice Admiral
Last Designator
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
Last Designator Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
1972-1974, Surface Warfare Office (OPNAV) N86, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) CNO
Service Years
1941 - 1974
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Home State
Ohio
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Year of Birth
1919
 
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Youngstown
Date of Passing
Jun 18, 2008
 

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In 1941 King graduated from Yale University and received his naval commission through the NROTC program. He is perhaps the first NROTC graduate to achieve three-star rank in the U.S. Navy. He spent most of World War II serving in two light cruisers, the Trenton (CL-11) and Mobile (CL-63). Later in the 1940s he was officer in charge of a school for gunner's mate training in Anacostia, D.C., executive officer of the destroyer Moale (DD-693), and attended postgraduate school to learn about nuclear weapons. In the 1950s served on the staff of the Surface Antisubmarine Development Detachment of the Operational Development Force, commanded the destroyer Bache (DDE-470), was the nuclear weapons requirements officer on the OpNav staff, and a student in at the Naval War College. While on the staff of Commander Carrier Division Six, he served under two future CNOs, George Anderson and Thomas Moorer. Later he commanded Destroyer Division 601, Nuclear Weapons Training Center, Atlantic, and the destroyer tender Yellowstone (AD-27). He was planning officer on the Seventh Fleet staff when the Vietnam War began in earnest in the mid-1960s. Later in that decade he was executive assistant to CNOs David McDonald and Thomas Moorer, Commander Destroyer Squadron One and Commander Antisubmarine Warfare Group One. In the latter capacity he presided in 1969 over the international inquiry into the collision between the Australian carrier Melbourne and U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans (DD-754). Following duty in OpNav, in the spring of 1970 he succeeded Vice Admiral Elmo Zumwalt as Commander Naval Forces Vietnam. He had a difficult, frustrating tour as the war was winding down. He concluded his career in Washington as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Surface Warfare) and as J-3 on the Joint Staff. He retired from active duty in 1974. The oral history contains a detailed description of his battle against lung cancer in the 1990s. King passed away in 2008.

   

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McDonald, David Lamar, ADM, (1928-1967) OFF 131X Admiral
Moorer, Thomas, ADM, (1933-1974) Admiral
Nimitz, Chester William, FADM, (1905-1966) OFF 110X Admiral
Bennett, Fred Groch, VADM, (1936-1973) Vice Admiral
Blouin, Francis, VADM, (1933-1971) Vice Admiral
Clarey, Bernard Ambrose, ADM, (1934-1973) Vice Admiral
Connolly, Thomas, VADM Vice Admiral
Holmes, Ephraim P., ADM, (1930-1970) Vice Admiral
HYLAND, John, ADM, (1934-1971) Vice Admiral
Ramage, Lawson Paterson, VADM, (1931-1969) Vice Admiral
Aurand, Evan Peter, VADM, (1938-1972) OFF Rear Admiral Upper Half
Benson, Roy, RADM, (1929-1969) OFF 112X Rear Admiral Upper Half
Daspit, Lawrence Randall, RADM, (1927-1967) OFF 112X Rear Admiral Upper Half
Gayler, Noel Arthur Meredyth, ADM, (1935-1976) OFF Rear Admiral Upper Half
Maurer, John, RADM, (1935-1974) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Mehle, Roger William, RADM, (1937-1970) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Paine, Roger Warde, RADM, (1939-1972) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Smith, John Victor, VADM, (1934-1973) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Ward, Norvell Gardiner, RADM, (1935-1973) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Zumwalt, Elmo Russell, ADM, (1942-1974) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Axene, Dean, RADM, (1944-1974) Rear Admiral Lower Half
Engen, Donald, VADM, (1942-1978) Rear Admiral Lower Half
Abbot, James Lloyd, RADM, (1939-1974) Captain
Adamson, Robert Edward, VADM, (1943-1977) Captain
Bagby, Oliver Walton, CAPT, (1934-1968) Captain
Bayne, Marmaduke Gresham, VADM, (1942-1977) Captain
Beach, Edward Latimer, CAPT, (1935-1966) Captain
Beach, Jr., Edward, CAPT, (1939-1966) Captain
Bergner, Allen Alfred, RADM, (1940-1972) Captain
Cauble, Lawrence, CAPT, (1942-1968) OFF 131X Captain
Crowe, William James, ADM, (1946-1989) OFF 112X Captain
Cummings, Charles W, RADM, (1943-1974) Captain
Delano, Victor, CAPT, (1937-1969) OFF 111X Captain
Gadow, John, CAPT, (1954-1990) OFF 163X Captain
Hannah, jr., Elmore, CAPT Captain
Hays, Ronald, ADM, (1950-1988) Captain
Kidd, Jr., Isaac, ADM, (1941-1978) OFF 111X Captain
Lacouture, John Edwin, CAPT, (1936-1970) OFF 131X Captain
McKenzie, Robert Palmer, RADM, (1941-1982) OFF 131X Captain
McNees, Richard Brown, CAPT, (1940-1972) OFF 9421 Captain
Smith, Joseph, CAPT, (1940-1967) OFF 131X Captain
Snyder, Edwin Knowlson, VADM, (1943-1977) Captain
Steele, George Peabody, VADM, (1941-1975) Captain
Swanson, Eugene Samuel, CAPT, (1945-1976) OFF 410X Captain
Aldern, Donald Deane, CAPT, (1952-1970) OFF 131X Commander
Baldwin, Robert Bemus, VADM, (1944-1980) Commander
Buchanan, E.O., CAPT, (1954-1984) OFF 131X Commander
Colbus, Louis, CAPT, (1949-1983) OFF 111X Commander
Eckhouse, Morton, CDR, (1950-1977) Commander
Eckhouse, Morton, CDR, (1950-1977) Commander
Hipp Jr., Ronald Nickolas, CDR, (1951-1971) OFF 131X Commander
Johnson, Billie, CAPT, (1954-1980) Commander
Krejcarek, Donald James, CAPT, (1944-1977) OFF 111X Commander
Leahy, John Patrick, CAPT, (1947-1979) OFF 112X Commander
Raper, Albert, CDR, (1954-1974) OFF 112X Commander
Ryder, John, CAPT, (1948-1973) OFF 161X Commander

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