Leary, Herbert Fairfax, VADM

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Last Rank
Vice Admiral

Last Primary NEC
111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare

Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer

Primary Unit
1943-1945, Commander Eastern Sea Frontier

Service Years
1905 - 1945

Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral

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Home State
District Of Columbia

Year of Birth
1885

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Home Town Washington D.C.	Last Address Died: Dec. 3, 1957 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island Buried: U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery
Date of Passing Dec 03, 1957
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland

Official Badges

WW II Honorable Discharge Pin

US Navy Retired 30

US Navy Honorable Discharge

Unofficial Badges

Pearl Harbor Memorial Medallion

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	1957, National Cemetery Administration (NCA)

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Last Known Activity:

VICE ADMIRAL HERBERT FAIRFAX LEARY

Other Comments:

21 December 1945.
The Navy announced today retirement of Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary to inactive duty.

1901-1905, United States Naval Academy

FromYear 1901	ToYear 1905
College United States Naval Academy
Major bachelor degree

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	Website http://www.usna.edu///homepage.php

Last Updated:Oct 20, 2013

Personal Memories
Other Memories Appointed to USNA from Maryland and graduated 1905.

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Badt, Harry Asher, Cmdre, (1908-1946)

Bagley, David Worth, ADM, (1904-1947)

Barry, James, CAPT, (1909-1945)

Bastedo, Paul Henry, RADM, (1908-1946)

Belknap Jr., Charles, LCDR, (1903-1919)

Bellinger, Patrick, VADM, (1907-1947)

Billingsley, William Devotie, ENS, (1905-1913)

Blakely, Charles, VADM, (1898-1942)

Bowen, Harold, VADM, (1905-1947)

Bradley, Willis Winter, CAPT, (1906-1946)

Brown, Wilson, VADM, (1902-1944)

Calhoun, William Lowndes, ADM, (1906-1946)

Carpender, Arthur Schuyler, ADM, (1908-1946)

Carpenter, Reginald Thorne, Mid, (1900-1902)

Carter, Worrall Reed, RADM, (1908-1947)

Castle, Guy Wilkinson Stuart, CDR, (1901-1919)

Corwin, Arie Alverdo, CAPT, (1903-1945)

Daubin, Freeland Allyn, RADM, (1909-1948)

Davis, Guy Erwin, CAPT, (1906-1943)

Dibrell, Aquilla Gibbs, CDR, (1903-1933)

Draemel, Milo Frederick, RADM, (1906-1946)

Dutton, Benjamin, CAPT, (1901-1937)

Dutton, Jr., Benjamin, CAPT, (1905-1937)

Ede, Alfred Louis, LTJG, (1909-1915)

Edwards, Richard Stanislaus, ADM, (1907-1947)

Elliot, Richard McCall, LCDR, (1909-1918)

Ellyson, Theodore Gordon, CDR, (1905-1928)

Fitch, Aubrey Wray, ADM, (1906-1947)

Fletcher, Frank Jack, ADM, (1906-1947)

Friedell, Wilhelm Lee, RADM, (1905-1946)

FURER, Julius, RADM, (1897-1945)

Gearing, Henry Chalfant, CAPT, (1907-1944)

Ghormley, Robert Lee, VADM, (1906-1946)

Giffen, Robert Carlisle, VADM, (1907-1946)

GILL, Charles, CAPT, (1903-1939)

GLASSFORD, William, VADM, (1906-1946)

Goodrich, Caspar Frederick, LT, (1901-1907)

Gygax, Felix Xerxes, RADM, (1906-1946)

Halsey Jr., William Frederick, FADM, (1900-1947)

Hartigan, Charles Conway, RADM, (1906-1941)

Herbster, Victor Daniel, CAPT, (1908-1946)

Hewitt, Henry Kent, ADM, (1906-1949)

HOOPER, Stanford, RADM, (1905-1945)

Hovey, Charles E, ENS, (1907-1911)

Hustvedt, Olaf Mandt, VADM, (1909-1946)

Ingersoll, Royal Eason, ADM, (1905-1946)

Ingram, Jonas Howard, ADM, (1907-1947)

Jacobs, Randall, VADM, (1907-1946)

James, Jules, VADM, (1908-1946)

Jones, Claud Ashton, RADM, (1906-1946)

Kauffman, James Laurence, VADM, (1908-1949)

Kelley, Frank Harrison, RADM, (1910-1946)

Kidd, Isaac Campbell, RADM, (1906-1941)

Kimmel, Husband Edward, RADM, (1904-1942)

King, Ernest Joseph, FADM, (1897-1945)

King, Frank Ragan, CDR, (1907-1919)

Kinkaid, Thomas Cassin, ADM, (1908-1950)

Kirk, Alan, ADM, (1909-1946)

Land, Emory Scott, VADM, (1893-1937)

Lansdowne, Zachary, LCDR, (1909-1925)

Lee, Willis Augustus, VADM, (1904-1945)

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MAXFIELD, Louis Henry, CDR, (1907-1921)

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McCandless, Byron, RADM, (1905-1946)

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McNair, Frederick Vallette, CAPT, (1903-1942)

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Oldendorf, Jesse Bartlett, ADM, (1909-1948)

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Pye, William Satterlee, VADM, (1901-1944)

Read, Albert Cushing, RADM, (1907-1945)

REICHMUTH, Ferdinand, VADM, (1906-1946)

Reno, Walter Elsworth, LCDR, (1905-1917)

Richardson, Holden Chester, CAPT, (1897-1952)

RICHARDSON, James, ADM, (1902-1942)

ROBINSON, Samuel, ADM, (1903-1946)

ROCKWELL, Francis, VADM, (1908-1948)

Rodgers, John, CDR, (1897-1926)

ROOT, Edmund, CAPT, (1905-1946)

Rowcliff, Gilbert Jonathan, RADM, (1902-1945)

Saufley, Richard Caswell, LTJG, (1904-1916)

Sharp, Alexander, VADM, (1902-1946)

Spore, James Sutherland T., CDR, (1904-1935)

Spruance, Raymond Ames, ADM, (1903-1948)

Stark, Harold Rainsford, ADM, (1905-1946)

Staton, Adolphus, RADM, (1902-1947)

Theobald, Robert Alfred, RADM, (1906-1945)

Thomas, Clarence Crase, LT, (1908-1917)

Towers, John Henry, ADM, (1906-1947)

TOWNSEND, Lloyd, CDR, (1906-1926)

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Jones, Thomas, BG USA(Ret), (1910 - 1946)

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