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Eugene Bennett Fluckey (October 5, 1913 – June 28, 2007), nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey", [1] was a United States Navy rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine commander in World War II.
The submarine was eventually sold for scrap in 1972 for approximately $100,000 (currently $728,000). Admiral Fluckey noted that, had the crew known of this, they would have bought the sub and brought her back to the U.S. to serve as a museum ship.
USS Barb (SSN-596), a Permit-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barb, a kingfish of the Atlantic coast.. The contract to build her was awarded to the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and her keel was laid down on 9 November 1959.
Rear Admiral Eugene B. "Lucky" Fluckey, 1964–1966 † Rear Admiral John H. Maurer, 1966–1968 † Rear Admiral Walter L. Small, 1968–1970 † Rear Admiral Paul L. Lacy, Jr., 1970–1972 (Last WW2 submarine skipper in the job) Rear Admiral Frank D. McMullen, 1972-1975; Rear Admiral Charles H. Griffiths, 1975-1977
Eugene Bennett Fluckey: 1935 Rear Admiral; recipient of the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses for submarine combat during World War II; commander of USS Barb, which won the Presidential Unit Citation for its eighth through eleventh patrols and the Navy Unit Commendation for the twelfth patrol [47] [68] John James Powers: 1935
Allied naval bombardments of Japan Part of the Japan campaign, Pacific War USS Indiana bombarding Kamaishi, Japan on 14 July 1945 Date July–August 1945 Location Four Japanese cities and several military facilities and towns Result Allied victory Belligerents United States United Kingdom New Zealand Japan Casualties and losses 32 (POWs killed in the bombardments of Kamaishi) Up to 1,739 ...
Eugene B. Fluckey – rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine commander in World War II; Gerald Ford – former U.S. President; served aboard carrier during World War II; Edmund Giambastiani – 7th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
USS Barb (SSN-804) will be a Block 5 Virginia-class submarine with third United States Navy vessel named for the barb fish. [2] She will also be the first Virginia-class submarine to be named after an aquatic animal and the first US Navy submarine to be named after an aquatic animal in more than 30 years.