Moorer, Thomas Hinman

Moorer, Thomas Hinman
▪ 2005

      U.S. Navy admiral (b. Feb. 9, 1912, Mount Willing, Ala.—d. Feb. 5, 2004, Bethesda, Md.), was chief of naval operations (1967–70) and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970–74) during the Vietnam War. A naval aviator in World War II stationed at Pearl Harbor, Moorer rose through the ranks of the U.S. Navy to command the Pacific Fleet from 1964. In the 1960s he advocated attacking targets in North Vietnam to dissuade insurgencies in South Vietnam and Laos.

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