ADMIRAL JAMES L. HOLLOWAY JR. - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 24233
Price: $200.00
JAMES L. HOLLOWAY, JR.
8x10 photo in uniform, signed as admiral
Photograph signed: "J. L. Holloway Jr./Admiral". B/w, 8x10. James L.
Holloway, Jr. (1898-1984) served on a destroyer patrolling for U Boats in World
War I. In World War II, he helped plan the invasion of North Africa
(Operation Torch, 1943) and later commanded the battleship USS
Iowa in combat in the Pacific. After the war he was placed in charge of
a commission to review the Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps; his
ideas for an expanded NROTC with easier access to permanent naval rank for
graduates became known as The Holloway Plan. He was Superintendent of
the Naval Academy (1947-1950). As Commander of US naval forces in the
Mediterranean (1957-1959), he was in charge of the US intervention in
Lebanon in 1958. His son, James L. Holoway III, was to become Chief of Naval
Operations. This is the only time a father and son have held 4-star admiral rank
at the same time. Corners and margins creased and lightly soiled.
Three filing nicks at right margin. Otherwise, fine condition.
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