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Norfolk, Virginia - August 2011
Gulf of Aden - February 2010
Atlantic Ocean - July 2009
Baltic Sea - June 2009
SSN-769 USS Toledo and DDG-98 USS Forrest
Sherman - Port Everglades, Florida - April 2009
Port Everglades, Florida - April 2009
Port Everglades, Florida - April 2009
Port Everglades, Florida - April 2009
Port Everglades, Florida - April 2009
Atlantic Ocean - April 2009
Standard Missile SM-2 live firing - Pacific
Ocean - June 2008
South African Air Force Cheetah aircraft flyover
- Cape Town, South Africa - October 2007
South African Frigate SAS Amatola (F-145)
- Indian Ocean - September 2007
Souda Bay, Crete, Greece - July 2007
Mk-45 Mod.4 gun live fire exercise - Atlantic
Ocean - January 2007
Mk-45 Mod.4 gun live fire exercise - Atlantic
Ocean - January 2007
Norfolk, Virginia - February 2006
Norfolk, Virginia - February 2006
Pensacola, Florida - January 2006
Pensacola, Florida - January 2006
Pensacola, Florida - January 2006
sea trials - Gulf of Mexico - June 2005 (Northrop
Grumman Ingalls photo via NNS)
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Admiral William F. Halsey, Fleet Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz and Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman - 1945
Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman stands behind
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz aboard USS Missouri (BB-63) - Tokyo Bay,
September 2, 1945
Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman
(right-center) watches a parade in honor of the Greek independence - Athens,
Greece - March 1949
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman holds a
press-conference in Naples, Italy shortly before his death - circa July 21,
1951
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Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman (October 30,
1896 – July 22, 1951):
Forrest Percival Sherman (30 October 1896 - 22 July 1951) was an admiral in
the United States Navy and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval
Operations until Admiral Elmo Zumwalt became Chief of Naval Operations in
1970.
Born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Sherman was a member of the Naval Academy
class of 1918, graduating in June, 1917 due to America's entry into World War
I. During and shortly after World War I, he served in European waters as an
officer of the gunboat NASHVILLE (PG-7) and destroyer MURRAY (DD-97). In
1919–21, Sherman was assigned to the battleship UTAH (BB-31) and destroyers
REID (DD-292) and BARRY (DD-248), serving as Commanding Officer of the
latter.
Following duty as Flag Lieutenant to Commander Control Force, Atlantic Fleet,
he received flight training at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Designated a Naval
Aviator in December 1922, Lieutenant Sherman was assigned to Fighting
Squadron TWO (VF 2) until 1924, when he returned to Pensacola as an
instructor. Study at the Naval War College was followed in 1927 by service in
the aircraft carriers LEXINGTON (CV-2) and SARATOGA (CV-3). While in the
latter ship, he commanded Scouting Squadron TWO and was Flag Secretary to
Commander Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet.
Promoted to the ranks of Lieutenant Commander in 1930 and Commander in 1937,
during that decade Sherman served at the Naval Academy, commanded Fighting
Squadron 1, had charge of the Aviation Ordnance Section of the Bureau of
Ordnance, was Navigator of the aircraft carrier RANGER (CV-4), and had duty
on a number of flag staffs. In 1941–42, he served with the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations and was a member of the Permanent Joint Board on
Defense, Canada-United States. Captain Forrest Sherman worked closely with
then US Army Major Albert C. Wedemeyer author of the "Victory Plan of
1941", "the blueprint for the mobilization of the United States
Army for World War II". Wedemeyer, while working in the War Plans
Department, was commissioned to write the "Victory Plan" for
General George C. Marshall. The "Victory Plan" projected the future
organization for an army that did not yet exist, outlined combat missions for
a war not yet declared, and computed war production requirements for
industries that were still committed to peacetime manufacture." Captain
Forrest Sherman's personal relationship with Major Albert Wedemeyer
"ensured a community of planning effort between the two services and
pointed to a future in which the services would acknowledge that mobilization
planning was a joint responsibility that one service alone could not conduct
adequately." (From "Writing the Victory Plan of 1941" by
Charles E. Kirkpatrick)
In May 1942, after reaching the rank of Captain, Sherman took command of the
carrier Wasp (CV-7), taking her through the first month of the Solomon
Islands campaign. After Wasp was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 15 September
1942, he was awarded the Navy Cross for his extraordinary heroism in command
of the carrier during the opening days of the South Pacific operations. Sherman
then became Chief of Staff to Commander Air Force, Pacific Fleet. In November
1943 Rear Admiral Sherman was assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff to the
Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He held that position for
the remainder of World War II, playing a critical role in planning the
offensives that brought victory in the Pacific, and was present when Japan
surrendered on 2 September 1945. Following a short tour as a carrier division
commander, in December 1945 Vice Admiral Sherman became Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations.
Sherman's next assignment, beginning in January 1948, was to command the
Navy's operating forces in the Mediterranean Sea. He was recalled to
Washington, D.C., at the end of October 1949 to become Chief of Naval
Operations, with the rank of Admiral. During the next sixteen months, he
helped the Navy recover from a period of intense political controversy (as in
the so-called "Revolt of the Admirals"), and oversaw its responses
to the twin challenges of a hot war in Korea and an intensifying cold war
elsewhere in the world. On 22 July 1951, while on a military and diplomatic
trip to Europe, Admiral Forrest Sherman died in Naples, Italy, following a
sudden series of heart attacks.
He was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia;
Section 30. Grave 633.
Two destroyers have been named USS Forrest Sherman in his honor, as was
Sherman Island, Antarctica, Forrest Sherman Field, NAS Pensacola, home of the
Blue Angels, and Forrest Sherman Field, Hospital Point, U.S. Naval Academy.
The US Department of Defense school in Naples, Italy, was formerly called
Forrest Sherman High School.
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USS
Forrest Sherman (DDG 98):
Built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Ingalls
Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Forrest Sherman was launched on 2
October 2004. Admiral Sherman's daughter, Ann Sherman Fitzpatrick, is the
ship's sponsor. She was commissioned on 28 January 2006 at NAS Pensacola and
six days later departed for her homeport in Norfolk, Va. to join the Atlantic
Fleet.
She departed Norfolk for her maiden deployment in July 2007, visiting various
nations around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, as well as
circumnavigating the continent of Africa. She returned to homeport in
December of that year.
In August 2007, while the ship was visiting Sevastopol to conduct drills with
the Ukrainian Navy, a 1,100 pound mine from World War II was discovered 500
yards from the vessel. The mine was secured before it could damage the ship.
In early June 2008, Forrest Sherman deployed for three months in support of
U.S. Southern Command's Partnership of the Americas 2008 (POA 08) operation.
She returned home on 29 August 2008.
source:
wikipedia
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