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Home Town St. Louis, MO
Last Address San Diego, CA
Date of Passing Jun 06, 1956
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Section 7 Plot 1607
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Charles Turner Joy served as an admiral of the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. During the last years of his career, while fighting leukemia, he served as Superintendent of the Naval Academy.
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After receiving an appointment to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1912, he graduated as an ensign in 1916 and served on the battleship USS Pennsylvania for more than four years, including the period of US participation in World War I.
In 1923, after receiving a graduate degree in ordinance engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, he began two years as Aide and Flag Lieutenant to Commander, Yangtze Patrol, China, followed by a tour as Executive Officer of the Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Pope, an assignment with the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington DC, sea duty with the battleship USS California, and service at the Naval Mine Depot at Yorktown, Virginia.
In the mid-1930s, as a lieutenant commander, he became the commander of the destroyer USS Litchfield and was on the staff of Commander Destroyers, Battle Force. In 1937, he became an instructor at the US Naval Academy, followed in 1940 as the Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis.
When the US entered World War II in December 1941, he was the Operations Officer for Commander Scouting Force, Pacific Fleet and assisted in planning and executing combat operations against Japan. In 1942, he was promoted to the rank of captain and commanded the heavy cruiser USS Louisville from September 1942 until June 1943, during which time he was active in the Aleutian Islands and South Pacific war campaigns.
In 1944, following a war plans tour at the Navy Department in Washington DC, he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and became commander of Cruiser Division 6, leading it through nearly a year and a half of intense combat service against the Japanese. He participated in eleven naval combat engagements in the Pacific Theater during World War II, including the Battles of Bougainville, Rennell Island, Guadalcanal, Attu, Saipan, the Philippine Sea, Formosa and Okinawa.
After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, he was assigned to duty in China as the Commander, Yangtze Task Force. In 1946, he returned to the US and became head of the Naval Proving Ground at Dahlgren, Virginia.
In 1949, he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral and he returned to the Western Pacific to become Commander Naval Forces, Far East and held that position until mid-1952, directing much of the Navy's effort during the first two years of the Korean War, directing the amphibious landings at Inchon, Korea. From July 1951 until May 1952, he was the senior United Nations (UN) delegate to the Korean Armistice Negotiations. Negotiations languished after he put the final UN Command package proposal on the table in April 1952.
Frustrated by lack of progress, he requested a reassignment and he returned to the US to become the Superintendent of the US Naval Academy and he retired in that position in July 1954 after 38 years of continuous military service.
His military and foreign decorations and awards include the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with combat "V" device, the Mexican Service Medal, the World War I Victory Medal with escort clasp, the China Service Medal, the American Defense Service Medal with Atlantic clasp, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three bronze service stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korea Service Medal with one service star, the Philippine Liberation Medal with two stars, the Order of British Empire, and the United Nations Korea Medal.
He was then promoted to the rank of admiral on the retired list for having been especially commended in combat in accordance with an Act of Congress passed on March 4, 1925 and February 23, 1942 (colloquially known as a "tombstone promotion").
In 1955 he authored the book "How Communists Negotiate," based on his experiences while a part of the Korean Armistice Negotiations. He died of leukemia at the age of 61.
The destroyer USS Turner Joy (DD-951), which was in service from 1959 until 1991, was named in his honor, as well as Turner Joy Road at the US Naval Academy.
In 1978, his memoirs "Negotiating While Fighting: The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean Armistice Conference" was published.
Western Caroline Islands Operation/Battle of Peleliu
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September / 1944
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October / 1944
Description The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September–November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau. U.S. Marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the U.S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island. This battle was part of a larger offensive campaign known as Operation Forager which ran from June–November 1944 in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Major General William Rupertus, USMC—commander of 1st Marine Division—predicted the island would be secured within four days. However, due to Japan's well-crafted fortifications and stiff resistance, the battle lasted over two months. In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which exceeded all other amphibious operations during the Pacific War. The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it "the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines".
