C Griffin (1906)

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Source Documents

Record	Events	Title	Source Website	Type	Created
Admiral Charles Griffin			Forces War Records	Image	4/10/2013
Charles Griffin Headstone in Arlington Cemetery			Forces War Records	Image	4/10/2013
C Griffin (1906)	Birth, Death, Discharge, Enlistment, Military Service, Other, People	US, Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010	Forces War Records	Index Record	31/05/2013

Source URLs

URL	Events	Description
Admiral
four-star admiral
United States Navy
United States Naval Forces Europe
Allied Forces Southern Europe
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C.
Central High School
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland
[1]
[2]
[3]
naval aviator
Chester
aeronautical engineering
University of Michigan
Enterprise
Naval Air Station Anacostia
World War II
Essex
Marcus Island
Wake Island
Marshall Islands
Rabaul
Bronze Star
Task Force 58
Pacific theater
Joint Chiefs of Staff
[4]
Croatan
France
Operation Magic Carpet
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States Atlantic Fleet
Revolt of the Admirals
civil-military conflict
Department of the Navy
B-36
chief of naval operations
Louis E. Denfeld
House Armed Services Committee
[5]
Secretary of the Navy
Matthews
Defense Department
National War College
Oriskany
Seventh Fleet
Armistice
Korea
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
[7]
[8]
[9]
Japan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tokyo
Taiwan
St. Paul
Yorktown
Ticonderoga
John F. Kennedy
Task Force 77
South China Sea
Laos
Arleigh A. Burke
John B. Connally, Jr.
[11]
Newsweek
[10]
George W. Anderson, Jr.
nuclear propulsion program
Hyman G. Rickover
Atomic Energy Commission
[12]
Cuban Missile Crisis
[13]
Robert L. Dennison
Atlantic Command
Harold Page Smith
[14]
David L. McDonald
U.S. Naval Forces, Europe
John S. Thach
James S. Russell
[16]
NATO
[17]
[18]
Horacio Rivero, Jr.
Naples
Italy
freeriding
[19]
Melvin Village, New Hampshire
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Presidential Unit Citation
Order of George I
clarification needed
Greece
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Philippine Legion of Honor
Order of Military Merit
South Korea
Order of the Rising Sun
Medal of Pao-ting
Republic of China
Gray Eagle Award
[20]
United States Naval Institute