-cfs! 75 ff an V, 'S pf 1 Rear Admiral John H. Carson, USN Cruiser Division Two, composed of the Light Cruiser Roanoke and the Heavy Cruiser Newport News, left the United States on 6 january 1950 to join the SIXTH FLEET in the Mediterranean Sea. As Commander of the Cruiser Division, Rear Admiral Carson, with the Roanoke as his flagship, received and translated decisions from higher authority into orders for his own command, and assumed tactical command of the operations of his part of the Fleet. Rear Admiral Carson graduated from the US. Naval Academy with the Class of 1916, and during a considerable part of his naval career has specialized in the held of ordnance. Cn 1 july 1931 Rear Admiral Carson, then Lieutenant Commander, Was executive officer at the commissioning of the USS. Constitution, Old lronsitlcsfy which had been restored at the Boston Navy Yard With funds provided largely by the school children of the United States. As Operations Officer of Cruisers Battle Force Rear Admiral Carson served on board the U.S.S. Honolulu during the attack 017 December 1941 on Pearl Harbor, and during the early part of World War 11 his organization and super' vision of the convoy system in the Southwest Pacific contributed materially to the success of our forces. Later in the War he had command of the USS. Boston, and in 1944 assumed command of the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, R.1. just prior to assuming command of Cruiser Division Two, Rear Admiral Carson was Navy Secretary of the Research and Development Board in Washington, D.C.
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