Admiral stockdale biography

James Bond Stockdale
Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy
Medal of Honor Recipient
Vietnam War

Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the U.S.

Navy.

Admiral stockdale biography

Stockdale led aerial attacks from the carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident. On his next deployment, while Commander of Carrier Air Wing 16 aboard the carrier USS Oriskany (CV-34), he was shot down over enemy territory on 9 September 1965.

Stockdale was the highest-ranking naval officer held as a Prisoner of War in Vietnam.

James Bond Stockdale was born on 23 December 1923 in Abingdon, IL. Following a brief period at Monmouth College (1946), he attended the U.S.

Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, from which he graduated with the class of 1947 (which actually graduated in 1946 due to the abbreviated schedule still in effect from World War II). Stockdale had promised his father that he would try to become the best midshipman at the Naval Academy.

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