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Naval Historical Center #NH 56952. Cropped
by author.
"Mort" Deyo had helped evaluate proposals for aid to China as aide to the Secretaty of the Navy in 1940. He commanded Destroyer
Squadron 11 in the Neutrality
Patrol in the Atlantic in 1941, a cruiser in the Aleutians, in late 1942, and a bombardment group (Task Force 129)
at Normandy in
June 1944.
As long, however, as their fire is directed at our ships and away from the troops, we have no complaint. That is what we are there for.
(Deyo 1956) Deyo was named to command Task Force 54, the
bombardment group
for the Okinawa
invasion, after Oldendorf was injured in a launch that collided
with a buoy. Deyo's flagship, Tennessee, was hit by a kamikaze during the campaign.
Samuel Eliot Morison (1959) was aboard Tennessee during the
preinvasion bombardment at Okinawa, and later claimed that he witnessed
Deyo sniff the cordite fumes from the battleship guns and remark
"That has a good, offensive smell!" Prior to the Normany invasion, Deyo let off steam by working out with a punching bag in his cabin (Atkinson 2013).
| 1887-7-1 |
Born at Poughkeepsie, New York |
|
| 1911 |
Ensign |
Graduates from Naval Academy. Assigned to BB V irginia |
| 1912 |
DD Duncan |
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| 1914 |
BB Washington |
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| 1916 |
DD Jenkins |
|
| 1917 |
DD Allen, Queenstown Station |
|
| 1919-7-21 |
Lieutenant commander |
Commander, DD Morris |
| 1920 |
Staff, 1 Naval District |
|
| 1921 |
Flag lieutenant, U.S. Fleet | |
| 1926 |
Instructor, Naval Academy |
|
| 1929 |
Commander, DD Sloat |
|
| 1930-6 |
Commander, DD Upshur |
|
| 1932 |
Naval War College |
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| 1934-12 |
Commander |
Executive officer, CL Milwaukee |
| 1936 |
Staff, Asiatic Fleet |
|
| 1940-11-1
|
Captain | Aide, Secretary of the Navy |
| 1941-4 |
Commander, Destroyer Squadron 11 |
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| 1942-2 |
Commander, AP Monticello |
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| 1942-7 |
Commander, CA Indianapolis |
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| 1942-12-14
|
Rear
admiral |
Commander, Destroyers, Atlantic
Fleet |
| 1944-1-1 |
|
Commander, Cruiser Division 13,
Atlantic and west Pacific |
| 1946-4 |
Commander, 1 Naval District,
Boston |
|
| 1949 |
Vice admiral |
Retires |
| 1973 |
Dies |
References
Deyo (1956-2-29; accessed 2012-6-29)
Morison (1959)
Naval
Historical
Center (accessed 2008-1-15)
Pettibone (2006)
Romanus and Sunderland (1952; accessed 2012-6-29)
Tuohy (2007)
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