Oliver Kessing
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Oliver Owen Kessing was a highly decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of rear admiral. A veteran of several conflicts, he rose to the rank of commodore during World War II and com
Kessing while at Chappel Hill
Sorlen Island and the north anchorage of Ulithi atoll, late 1944.
John H. Brown Jr.
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John Herbert "Babe" Brown, Jr. was a decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of vice admiral during World War II and an American football player. A graduate of the United States Nava
Oliver Kessing
…boxing and earned nickname "Scrappy". Among his classmate were several admirals, who distinguished later during World War II including Wilder D. Baker, John H. Brown Jr., Carleton F. Bryant, Robert W. Cary, Edward L. Cochrane, Richard L. Conolly, Edward Ellsberg, Joseph Redman, Theodore D. Ruddock and John B. W. Waller…
RADM John H. Brown Jr., USN
Brown as lieutenant commander aboard submarine Narwhal in 1930.
Brown aboard submarine Narwhal in July 1930.
Brown (right) during the commissioning ceremony of ex-USS Brooklyn as O'Higgins in the Chilean Navy at Philadelphia Navy Yard in June 1951.