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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.
Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign (1944)/Battle of Angaur
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October / 1944
Description The Battle of Angaur was a battle of the Pacific campaign in World War II, fought on the island of Angaur in the Palau Islands from 17 September—22 October 1944. This battle was part of a larger offensive campaign known as Operation Forager which ran from June 1944 to November 1944 in the Pacific Theater of Operations, and Operation Stalemate II in particular.
Bombardment of Angaur by the battleship Tennessee, four cruisers, and forty Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from the aircraft carrier Wasp began on 11 September 1944. Six days later on 17 September, the U.S. 81st Infantry Division—commanded by Major General Paul J. Mueller—landed on the northeast and southeast coasts. Both RCTs were counterattacked during the night. Both RCTs linked up the next day. By the end of the third day, 19 Sept., the main area of Japanese resistance was to the northeast around Romauldo Hill, so the 323rd RCT was sent to Ulithi.
Resistance stiffened as the Americans advanced on "the Bowl", a hill near Lake Salome in the northwest of the island where the Japanese planned to make their last stand, after the rest of Angaur and Saipan town were taken. There was another small position where the Japanese had about 400 soldiers in a defense at the southeast corner of the island, around Beach Green, that was neutralized on September 20 after 2 days of harsh fighting and about 300 U.S. casualties.
From 20 September, the 322nd Infantry Regiment repeatedly attacked the Bowl, but the 750 defenders repulsed them with artillery, mortars, grenades and machine guns. Gradually, hunger, thirst, and American shellfire and bombing took their toll on the Japanese, and by 25 September the Americans had penetrated the Bowl. Rather than fight for possession of the caves, they used bulldozers to seal the entrances. By 30 September, the island was said to be secure although the Japanese still had about 300 more soldiers in the Bowl and surrounding areas that held out for almost four more weeks. Toward the end of the first week of October, 1944, the protracted conflict had degenerated into minor patrol action with sniping, ambushing, and extensive booby-trapping employed by both sides.
The island's defense commander, Major Goto was killed on 19 October fighting to keep possession of a cave.[1]:70–71 The last day of fighting was October 22 with a total of 36 days of fighting and blasting the Japanese resistance from their caves with explosives, tanks, artillery and flamethrowers. The 81 Infantry Division had finally taken the whole of Angaur, albeit suffering more casualties than they had inflicted.
