Oriskany (CVA 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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I w I l 1 l REAR ADMIRAL RALPH W. COUSINS, U. S. NAVY Ralph Wynne Cousins was born in Eldorado, Oklahoma, on July 24, 1915. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy from the Twelfth Congressional District of Michigan in June 1933. He was graduated from the Naval Academy and com- missioned in the U.S. Navy on June 3, 1957. In March 1940, he reported to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for flight training. He completed flight training and was designated a Naval Aviator in December 1940. He was then assigned to Bombing Squadron TWO, and was serving with that Squadron on board the USS LEXINGTON at the outbreak of World War II in December 1941. He was on board the LEXINGTON when it was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea and was awarded the Navy Cross For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous devotion to duty as pilot of a dive bomber against Taoanese forces in the Coral Sea on May 7, 1942 . . . . Among the positions Rear Admiral Cousins has held are: Executive Ofiicer of Bombing Squadron ELEVEN, Commanding Officer of Attack Carrier Air Group ELEVEN, Operations Officer and Executive Ofiicer of the aircraft carrier USS SAIPAN QCVL 48j, Deputy Chief of Staff and Operations Ofiicer for Commander SIXTH Fleet, and Commanding Ofiicer of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY QCVA 41j. In May 1965, he assumed the duties of Commander Carrier Division NINE and deployed in June of that year to the Western Pacific. While embarked in the attack carriers USS CORAL SEA and USS ORISKANY, he was directly respon- sible for the conduct of aerial strikes by the carriers of Task Force SEVENTY- SEVEN against the communists in Southeast Asia. 6 I ,I U a ,Af 1' 3 i

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