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Frederick T. Moore, Jr. was a United States Navy captain. During World War II he was executive officer of Fighter Squadron 1 operating off the carrier and commanding officer of the Air Group 35 aboard the aircraft carrier in the Pacific. During the Korean War, he was the commanding officer of naval air training at NAS Pensacola and the air officer on the . His first sea command was aboard the . In 1962–1963, Moore was the eighth commanding officer of . Late in his career during the Vietnam War, he was Chief of Staff of the Naval Air Training Command at Naval Air Station Pensacola from October 1965 to July 1969.〔 ==Early years== Moore was born in the Oak Square section of Brighton, Massachusetts in Boston on May 18, 1914, the son of Frederick T. Moore, Sr. and Susan Frances (O’Donnell) Moore. He was the second oldest of six children. His father was a regional sales representative for Dunlop tires and worked hard to earn a modest income. Moore came from a family whose roots in the United States of America go back to the 1630s and include ancestors who fought in the American Revolution at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill〔Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War page 93, Jones, John, Princeton; page 922, Moore, Issac, Sudbury; page 926, Moore, Jonathan, Harvard; page 933, Moore, Samuel, Worcester〕 and the American Civil War.〔Massachusetts Civil War Records - Fifty-first Regiment Mass. Volunteer Infantry, page 568, Moore, Edward L.〕〔New Hampshire Civil War Records - First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Heavy Artillery, page 947, Moore, Edward L.〕 During the winter months, Moore along with his two brothers would trek up the hill from Oak Square to Chandler Pond to skate and play hockey with their friends. They would skate for hours until the sun went down. All of the practice at Chandler Pond paid off as T. Moore excelled at hockey in both high school and college. He attended Boston Latin School and Boston College graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936. During his scholastic years at Boston Latin, Moore was the top goal scorer of all the Boston high school ice hockey leagues.〔Boston Latin Yearbook "Liber Actorum" 1932〕 At Boston College, he was captain of the hockey team and a member of the football and golf teams. Moore was prominent in athletics and social affairs throughout his four years at the Boston College. One of his close lifelong friends from the class of 1936 at BC was Tip O'Neil, future Congressman from Massachusetts and Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Upon graduation, Moore reported to Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight training and was commissioned Ensign, USNR and designated a Naval Aviator on August 1, 1938.〔〔1938 Flight Jacket Yearbook - Aviation Cadet Battalion - US Naval Air Station - Pensacola, FL〕 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「Frederick T. Moore, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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