TUCKER-THAYER

 

Capt. Tucker was born and raised in Logansport, Indiana. In 1919 he entered the Naval Academy, graduating with the Class of 1923.

His naval duties began serving aboard the USS KANE, taking flight training at Pensacola, FL. and serving on the USS WRIGHT.  He did an aerial survey of the Gulf Coast and Cuba while with the Navy’s photography laboratory in Pensacola.

Besides serving on the USS RALEIGH, he worked in the Navy Department’s Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C.  He then served on the USS MINNEAPOLIS and was then stationed at the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas.

He was commanding officer of Acorn Five at Woodlark Island in the New Hebrides.  One of the ships in the acorn Five group was the S S President Monroe. He worked with the staff on Guadalcanal before taking command of the USS TRIPOLII.

In 1945 he returned to the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station as commanding officer.  Upon finishing the naval War College, he took command of the Naval Photographic Center at Anacostia, VA.  His next tour was as the commanding officer of the Naval Operating Base in Argentia, Newfoundland.  The Pentagon was his last assignment with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  He retired in June 1953.