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Born: March 6, 1896, in San Rafael, Calif.; eldest son of the late Rear Admiral Augustus Fechteler, Annapolis '77. His German-born father captained the gunboat Concord at Manila, commanded the Fifth Naval District from 1918 to 1921, when he retired and died soon after. His brother Frank (Annapolis '18) was killed testing his plane for the 1922 Detroit Air Races...
...himself a shrewd and relaxed combat officer. Once, when warned by the captain of the ancient Tennessee ("Old Blisterbutt") about making too much smoke, he coolly signaled back: "Smoke unavoidable. Forced to cut out the boilers and burn garbage to slow down to your speed." In 1944, promoted to rear admiral and assigned to MacArthur's theater; led an amphibian group safely through the Hollandia and Philippine invasions...
Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, 64, who left Harvard to enter the war as a reservist lieutenant commander, was placed on the retired list as a rear admiral. Morison's plans: to keep right on writing his comprehensive History of United States Naval Operations in World...
...Rear Admiral Maxim Skriganov...
...April 4. Rear Admiral M.F. Romanov, age not given, "outstanding" fleet commander...