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Home Town Chicago, IL
Last Address Virginia Beach, Virginia Buried at USNA Cemetery, Annapolis, Maryland
Date of Passing May 04, 2003
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
Rear Admiral Lawrence T. Heyworth, one of the few to wear both gold wings and gold dolphins.
USS Finback (SS-230) participated in eleven war patrols in the Pacific Ocean WWII.
He was a Navy Test Pilot and candidate for the Mercury space program.
First naval aviator to enter the "Double Supersonic Club" by flying an Air Force F-104A at Mach 2.
First commanding officer of the USS America CV-66.
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World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
September / 1945
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
January / 1943
To Month/Year
December / 1943
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories USS Finback (SS-230) 1942 TO 1945. Participated in eleven war patrols in the Pacific Ocean WWII.
