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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.
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.
USS Barb (SS-220), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Barbus, a genus of ray-finned fish.She compiled one of the most outstanding records of any U.S. submarine in World War II.
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
Naval Submarine Base New London was commissioned in 1916 as a dedicated submarine base. [ 5 ] Due to the Japanese hostilities in China and the South Pacific in 1939 the US Congress approved plans for building submarine bases and seaplane bases at Dutch Harbor Alaska , Kodiak, Alaska , Midway Atoll , and Wake Island .
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.
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