Reminiscences of Rear Adm. Joseph Muse Worthington, USN (Ret.)
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- ISBN 9781682692707
- Weight: 1355g
- Dimensions: 215 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 1976
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rear Admiral Joseph Muse, U.S. Navy (Reitired) served in the Memphis, operating in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic fleets, then in the USS Tutuila (PR-4) on the Yangtze Patrol. In 1940, while gunnery officer in the heavy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), did experimental work in use of radar in cruiser gunfire control. Was CO of the USS Benham (DD-794) in World War II, participating in operations at Midway and in the Solomons Islands, rescuing officers and men from the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Hammann (DD-412) during the Battle of Midway; screening the Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings; and contributing to the capture of Guadalcanal. Toward the end of the war, he was in tactical command of a radar picket station unit in the Ryukyu Islands and in the Honshu, Tokyo, and Hokkaido area. His later career included: Deputy Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; CO of the USS Rochester (CA-124) and U.S. Planner, Standing Group, NATO, Secretary of Defense.
