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  • admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral. Rear admiral is...
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    A rear admiral in four of the uniformed services of the United States is one of two distinct ranks of commissioned officers; "rear admiral (lower half)...
    27 KB (2,726 words) - 22:04, 2 October 2024
  • army or the air force. Admiral is ranked above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or fleet admiral. The word admiral in Middle English comes...
    32 KB (2,783 words) - 19:26, 11 September 2024
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    Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Admiral Byrd)
    Arctic explorer Rear Admiral Donald Baxter MacMillan and Rear Admiral Frederic R. Harris, to have been promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States...
    79 KB (8,583 words) - 11:43, 7 September 2024
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    Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte KB (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer...
    147 KB (18,561 words) - 20:07, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chester W. Nimitz
    Nimitz (/ˈnɪmɪts/; February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history...
    55 KB (5,410 words) - 08:45, 30 August 2024
  • Vice admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, usually equivalent to lieutenant general and air marshal. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear...
    33 KB (2,596 words) - 07:46, 10 July 2024
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    Karl Dönitz (redirect from Admiral Donitz)
    January 1943, Dönitz achieved the rank of Großadmiral (grand admiral) and replaced Grand Admiral Erich Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. Dönitz was...
    124 KB (16,451 words) - 09:12, 4 October 2024
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    Grace Hopper (redirect from Admiral Hopper)
    American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise...
    72 KB (6,910 words) - 12:10, 29 September 2024
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    Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered for his bold order...
    55 KB (6,094 words) - 18:25, 23 September 2024
  • Commissioned Corps with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below fleet admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health...
    17 KB (2,002 words) - 02:40, 11 August 2024
  • American navies together during the same period, an exploit which earned Admiral Helfrich the nickname "Ship-a-day Helfrich". The aggressive pace of operations...
    57 KB (4,112 words) - 15:55, 3 October 2024
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    series. He also uses the bounty hunter pseudonym Kenix Kil. Admiral Saul Karath Admiral of the Sith Navy during the Jedi Civil War. Karath formerly served...
    88 KB (11,654 words) - 12:19, 30 September 2024
  • Vice admiral (abbreviated as VADM) is a three-star commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States...
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  • Thumbnail for Isoroku Yamamoto
    (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined...
    63 KB (7,711 words) - 22:02, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
    Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Адмира́л фло́та Сове́тского Сою́за Кузнецо́в, "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov")...
    62 KB (5,758 words) - 14:09, 21 September 2024
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    ranks of rear admiral, vice admiral and admiral of the fleet are sometimes considered generically to be admirals. The rank of admiral is currently the...
    18 KB (1,935 words) - 12:30, 20 September 2024
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    Yi Sun-sin (redirect from Admiral Yi)
    pronunciation: [i.sʰun.ɕin]; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean admiral and military general famed for his victories against the Japanese navy...
    59 KB (7,808 words) - 10:30, 1 October 2024
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    was an American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States...
    82 KB (9,445 words) - 08:37, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zheng He
    Chinese admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644). He is often regarded as the greatest admiral in Chinese...
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