Crommelin, John Geraerdt, Jr., RADM

Deceased

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Service Details

Last Rank
Rear Admiral Upper Half

Last Primary NEC
131X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Pilot

Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer

Primary Unit
1949-1950, Pentagon Navy Command Center (NCC), CNO - OPNAV

Service Years
1923 - 1950

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Personal Details

Home State

Alabama

Year of Birth
1902

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Contact Info

Home Town Montgomery, AL	Last Address Montgomery, AL
Date of Passing Nov 02, 1996
Location of Interment Greenwood Cemetery - Montgomery, Alabama

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	2019, United States Navy Memorial - Assoc. Page

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

After his military service, John Crommeline operated part of his family plantation, named Harrogate Springs, in Elmore County, raising a variety of crops. He also ran unsuccessfully for various public offices. He was a candidate in the Democratic Presidential primary in New Hampshire in 1968 and also repeatedly announced himself as a candidate for the United States Senate. The National States Rights Party, advocating white supremacy, nominated him for Vice President in 1960.

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Legion of Honor
Awarded for Actions During World War II
Service: Navy
Rank: Captain
General Orders: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 346 (January 1946)
Synopsis: Captain John G. Crommelin, Jr., United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Chief of Staff of a carrier combat task group from 1 January 1944 to 8 August 1944.

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Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal - 1943

Name of Award
Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal

Devices
none

Year Awarded
1943

Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2008

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Details Behind Award

The invasion bombardment announcing America's first

major thrust into the central Pacific began 20 November at

0500, and 76 battle-filled hours later, Tarawa and Makin

Islands were captured. LISCOME BAY?s aircraft played their

part well in the 2,278 action sorties provided by carrier

based planes which neutralized enemy airbases, supported

landings and ground operations in powerful bombing-strafing

missions, and intercepted enemy raids. With the islands

secured, the U.S. forces began a retirement.

On 23 November, the Japanese submarine I-175 arrived

off Makin. The temporary task group built around Rear Adm.

H. M. Mullinnix's three escorts, LISCOME BAY, CORAL SEA

(CVE-57) and CORREGIDOR (CVE-58) commanded by Rear Adm.

Robert M. Griffin in NEW MEXICO (BB-40) was steaming 20

miles southwest of Butaritari Island at 15 knots. At 0430,

24 November, reveille was made in LISCOME BAY. The ship

went to routine general quarters at 0505 as flight crews

prepared their planes for dawn launchings. There was no

warning of a submarine in the area until about 0510 when a

lookout shouted: " . . . here comes a torpedo!" The missile

struck abaft the after engineroom an instant later with a

shattering roar. A second major detonation closely followed

the first, the entire interior burst into flames. At 0533,

LISCOME BAY listed to starboard and sank, carrying Admiral

Mullinix, Captain Wiltsie, 53 other officers, and 591

enlisted men down with her; 272 of her crew were rescued.

Gallantly her men had served; gallantly they died in the

victorious campaign giving their lives for the Nation's future.

LISCOME BAY received one battle star for World War II

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