The Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Joseph Muse Worthington, USN (Ret.): 1902-1986 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781682692707)

Rear Admiral Joseph Muse, U.S. Navy (Reitired) served in the Memphis, operating in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic fleets, then in the USS Tutuila (PR-4) on the Yangtze Patrol. In 1940, while gunnery officer in the heavy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), did experimental work in use of radar in cruiser gunfire control. Was CO of the USS Benham (DD-794) in World War II, participating in operations at Midway and in the Solomons Islands, rescuing officers and men from the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Hammann (DD-412) during the Battle of Midway; screening the Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings; and contributing to the capture of Guadalcanal. Toward the end of the war, he was in tactical command of a radar picket station unit in the Ryukyu Islands and in the Honshu, Tokyo, and Hokkaido area. His later career included: Deputy Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; CO of the USS Rochester (CA-124) and U.S. Planner, Standing Group, NATO, Secretary of Defense.

Author: Joseph Muse Worthington
ISBN-10: 1682692701
ISBN-13: 9781682692707
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1976
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.98lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.00d