Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon was born on July 25, 1910, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second youngest of five Chung-Hoon children, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in May 1934. While at the Naval Academy, he was a valued member of the Navy Football team.
Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) from May 1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, Sigsbee assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese island of Kyushu. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed into Sigsbee, reducing her starboard engine to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control. Despite the damage, Admiral Chung-Hoon, then a Commander, valiantly kept his anti-aircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire" against the continuing enemy air attack while simultaneously directing the damage control efforts that allowed Sigsbee to make port under her own power.
After retiring from the Navy in 1959, Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon was appointed by William Quinn, Hawaiis first elected governor since statehood, to serve as director of the state Department of Agriculture. Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon died in July 1979.
This must be a work of fiction. Everyone knows that America in the 30’s and 40’s was too racist for him to have been allowed these accomplishments.
(and thank you Admiral Chung-Hoon).
So he was in Hawaii when the one was born
Thanks great bio
An armed escort for our guys in the South China Sea..named after a Chinese-American war hero.
Beautiful.
Kudos to whoever it was at the Pentagon or Pacific Fleet HQ that thought that one up.
An armed escort for our guys in the South China Sea..named after a Chinese-American war hero.
Beautiful.
Kudos to whoever it was at the Pentagon or Pacific Fleet HQ that thought that one up.
Thank you!
Very fitting a destroyer be named for him.