Henry Effingham Eccles (born in Bayside, New York, on 31 December 1898- died 14 May 1986 in Needham, Massachusetts) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and a major figure at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island from the late 1940s through the 1970s, as a thinker and writer on naval logistics and military theory. Bayside is an upper Middle class suburban neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York in the United States Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Rear admiral is a Naval Commissioned officer rank above that of a Commodore and Captain, and below that of a Vice Admiral. The Naval War College (NWC is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for Naval warfare and passing them Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km south of Providence
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Early Life and Education
The son of an Episcopal priest, the Rev'd George Warrington Eccles, and his wife Lydia Lawrence, he was initially educated privately at home by his parents and later sent to Trinity School in New York City, before enrolling as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Many schools use the name Trinity School: Australia Trinity College Perth Trinity Grammar School New South Wales The City of New York Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. After one year at Columbia, he entered the Naval Academy, graduating with the class of 1922. A Naval Academy is a national institution that provides undergraduate level education for prospective Naval officers Many nations support naval academies some of which are
Naval career
After his first assignments to battleships, Eccles attended Submarine School and served in two submarines before being ordered to Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1930. He commanded two submarines, then served as Engineer and Repair Officer at the Submarine Base at New London, Connecticut; then served for nearly three years as engineer in the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City and two years in the Design Construction Division of the Bureau of Engineering in the Navy Department, Washington, D. Pre-war Salt Lake City departed Philadelphia on 20 January 1930 for shakedown trials off the Maine coast C. In 1940, he was ordered to command the destroyer USS John D. Edwards on the Asiatic Station, based in the Philippines. History John D Edwards was laid down 21 May and launched 18 October 1919 by William Cramp & Sons; sponsored by Mrs He was in command when the Japanese simultaneously attacked Pearl Harbor as well as American and British positions in Southeast Asia on 7 December 1941. Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He and his ship participated in the battle of Badung Strait, and shortly after, while assigned to the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command, the battle of the Java Sea. The Battle of Badung Strait was a Naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 19 February &ndash The Battle of the Java Sea was a major Naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Wounded in action, Eccles was later awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, and The Netherlands Order of the Bronze Lion. The Navy Cross is the second highest medal that can be awarded by the Department of the Navy and the second highest award given for valor. The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. The Bronze Lion (Bronzen Leeuw is a high Royal Dutch award intended for servicemen who have shown extreme bravery and leadership in battle favouring The Netherlands; in
After recovering from his wounds, Eccles served in the Base Maintenance Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1942-43, where he helped to coordinate logistics planning for all advanced bases. Organization of the CNO's Office The Office of the Chief of Naval Operations includes the Chief of Naval Operations the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, the Deputy Chiefs After attending the command course at the Naval War College, he was promoted to captain and assigned for the final two years of the war to be the Director of the Advance Base Section, Service Force at the Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii. The Naval War College (NWC is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for Naval warfare and passing them The United States Pacific Fleet ( USPACFLT) is a Pacific Ocean Navy theater-level component command of the United States Navy, under the operational control In this key position, Eccles coordinated the planning, construction, and support of advance bases in the Central Pacific, a critical aspect of the American island-hopping strategy in the war against Japan. For his service in this capacity, he received the Legion of Merit. The Legion of Merit is a military decoration of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding
Immediately after the conclusion of the war, the Navy Department assigned Eccles to the Joint Operations Review Board, a group of officers from all services assigned to evaluate joint operations during World War II. The United States Department of the Navy was established by an Act of Congress on April 30 1798 to provide administrative and technical support and civilian leadership From that posting, he went on to command the battleship USS Washington. Service in the Atlantic March – July 1942 Her shakedown and underway training ranged along the eastern seaboard and into the Gulf of Mexico and lasted through American In 1947, the President of the Naval War College, then Admiral Raymond Spruance, selected Eccles to be the first Chairman of the College’s newly established Logistics Department, an area that Spruance and others felt had been neglected in professional naval thinking during the period between the two world wars. Raymond Ames Spruance ( July 03, 1886 - December 13, 1969) was a United States Navy Admiral in World War II. While in that position from 1947 to 1951, Eccles wrote his first book, Operational Naval Logistics (1950), a manual for the United States Navy that was a pioneering work on the fundamentals of his subject. He left the Naval War College in 1951 with orders to be Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM) with headquarters in London and, simultaneously, Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, to NATO’s Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH), with headquarters in Naples, Italy. United States Naval Forces Europe is the United States Navy component of the United States European Command. Allied Joint Force Command Naples or JFC Naples is a NATO military command Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the
Retirement Years
Eccles retired from active duty in the Navy on 30 June 1952 and was promoted to Rear Admiral on the retired list. Returning to his home in Newport, Rhode Island, he was closely associated with the Naval War College, where he served unofficially as a confidante and advisor to successive presidents of the College as well as an instructor for elective courses on military theory, principles of logistics, and international relations. Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km south of Providence The Naval War College (NWC is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for Naval warfare and passing them During this period, he was also a stimulating force for the Naval War College faculty and wrote several major works. When he left Newport in 1985 to enter a retirement home in Needham, Massachusetts, the Naval War College honored him by naming its library in his honor. Henry Eccles died in Needham a year later on 14 May 1986.
Published Works
- Operational Naval Logistics (1950)
- Logistics in the National Defense (1959, 1981, 1997)
- Military Concepts and Philosophy (1965)
- Military Power in a Free Society (1979)
Reference
Eveleyn Cherpak, Register of the Henry E. Eccles Papers (Newport: Naval War College, Naval Historical Collection, 1988)
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