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Arthur Francis Turner : ウィキペディア英語版 | Arthur Francis Turner
Admiral Sir (Arthur) Francis Turner, KCB DSC (23 June 1912 – 26 October 1991) was a British naval officer. He was the son of Rear Admiral AWJ Turner and his wife Mrs AM Turner (née Lochrane). ==Naval career== He entered the navy in 1931, completing a four year course at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham, Devonport. During the Second World War Turner travelled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to commission and bring back HMS Newark to the United Kingdom; then spent a period at the RNEC and at HMS Condor (the Royal Naval Air Station at Arbroath), before joining the aircraft carrier in 1944 as air engineer officer.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 Indomitable was the carrier squadron flagship in the British Pacific Fleet and Turner's department maintained a very high aircraft serviceability rate for the fleet's strikes. Turner was twice mentioned in despatches took part in air strikes against Okinawa off Japan in 1945.〔 After the Second World War, Turner planned the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm. From 1954 Turner served in the Engineer in Chief's department at Bath, laying the foundation for the Navy's planned maintenance organisation. His other positions included: Captain Superintendent of the Royal Naval Aircraft Yard at Donibristle (1956–58), Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Planning in London, Chief Staff Officer (Technical) on the Central Staff, Mediterranean Fleet (1962–64), Director-General of Aircraft (Navy) at the Ministry of Defence (1964–67)〔 and Chief of Fleet Support at the Ministry of Defence (1967–71).〔 Turner was promoted to Vice-Admiral in June 1968.〔The Times 21 June 1968〕 Then in 1970 Turner made naval history by becoming the first officer of a non-executive branch to reach the rank of full Admiral. He was one of the Navy's first specialists in naval aeronautical engineering and pioneered the introduction of planned maintenance to improve the reliability of the fleet's machinery.〔(The Papers of Admiral Sir (Arthur) Francis Turner )〕 He retired in 1971.〔
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