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Vice Admiral Alfred Eugene Montgomery (12 June 1891 – 15 December 1961) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in World War I and World War II. A graduate of the Naval Academy, he participated in operations on the Mexican Border. He trained for submarines, and became executive officer of the submarine . In November 1914 he reported to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard where the new submarine was being fitted out, and served as its commander from June 1917 until it was lost on 17 December 1917. In June 1922, Montgomery qualified as a naval aviator. He commanded observation and torpedo squadrons, and was Executive Officer of the aircraft carrier from November 1936 until June 1938, and its commanding officer from June 1940 to June 1941. In June 1941, he became Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Aircraft, Atlantic Fleet. He became commander of Carrier Division 12, flying his flag on in August 1943, and commander of Carrier Division 3 in March 1944, with his flag on . As such, he commanded a Task Group of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Philippines campaign. After the war, he commanded the Fifth Fleet and the First Task Fleet. ==Early life== Alfred Eugene Montgomery was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 12 June 1891, the son of Eugene and Julia Smith Montgomery. He was educated in Omaha and at Brookline High School in Massachusetts. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, from Nebraska in 1908. He graduated with the class of 1912 on 8 June 1912,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography – Vice Admiral Alfred Eugene Montgomery, USN )〕 and was commissioned as an ensign in 1914. His first assignment was to the battleship . He was also assigned as an instructor on the , which was then serving as a training ship at the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island. Between February 1914 and July 1915 he served on the cruiser , participating in operations on the Mexican Border, the cruiser and the battleship .〔 In July 1915, he joined the submarine service. After a training course on the old monitor USS ''Tonopah'', he became executive officer of the submarine . In November 1914 he reported to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard where the new submarine was being fitted out. He served as its commander from June 1917 until 17 December 1917,〔 when ''F-1'' collided with her sister ship during maneuvers, and sank within seconds with the loss of nineteen of her crew. Montgomery was then assigned to the submarine , which was being fitted out at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California. He became its commander when it was commissioned on 26 October 1918. He returned to the Union Iron Works in October 1920 to fit out and commission the but before this occurred he was sent to Mare Island in January 1921 as Superintendent of New Works in the Machinery Division.〔 In January 1922, Montgomery reported to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, where he qualified as a naval aviator on 8 June 1922.〔 He then became Executive Officer of VO-2, the observation squadron operating from the aircraft tender . In 1923 he became commander of VO-1 and then VO-6. After a short period as aide to Captain Walter R. Gherardi, who commanded the Scouting Fleet's aircraft squadrons from the aircraft tender , he became commander of the torpedo bomber squadron VT-1. He was posted to the Naval Air Station San Diego as assembly and repair officer in 1925, becoming its executive officer the next year. He then returned to sea as head of the air department on the aircraft carrier . In July 1929, he became commander of VT-2 on the .〔 Following the usual pattern of alternating sea and shore duty, he commanded the Naval Air Station Seattle from August 1930 to May 1932. From July 1932 until May 1933 he was as Aviation Officer on the Staff of Commander Cruisers, Scouting Force,on its flagship, . He then became the head of the Aviation Section, Ship's Movement Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Navy Department in Washington, D.C.,〔 and commanded the Naval Air Station Anacostia from July 1934 to February 1936. He returned to sea in February 1936 as Plans and Operations Officer on the Staff of Commander Aircraft, Battle Force, Rear Admiral Henry V. Butler, and later Rear Admiral Frederick J. Horne. He was Executive Officer of the aircraft carrier in November 1936 until June 1938, and of Naval Air Station San Diego again from July 1938 to July 1939. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred E. Montgomery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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