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Home Town Lawrenceburg Anderson County KY
Date of Passing Dec 15, 1968
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
US Navy Four Star Admiral. Wooldridge graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1920. Following tours with submarines based in New London, Connecticut and the Panama Canal Zone he served as an instructor at the naval academy. During World War II he commanded the battleship New Jersey in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and in the first naval raid on Tokyo. Earlier in the war he served with the Atlantic Fleet and in the Navy Department. For a year after the war, Wooldridge commanded the occupation forces in northeastern Japan. Then he was named as the assistant chief of naval operation post in Washington. He left Washington for tours with the Atlantic Fleet, then returned to become commandant of the National War College. He held that post from 1955 to 1958 and on April 6, 1959 he was promoted to full Four Star Admiral. Wooldridge was assistant chief of naval operations after the war and Commander Striking Fleet, Atlantic, a NATO command under Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. He also represented the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the National Security Council. He received 15 decorations for his wartime service. He retired in 1961.
