Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, says the future USS Jeremiah Denton will be a tribute to the admiral’s legacy: Retired Rear Admiral Denton, during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon in 2009. Senate, representing Alabama, in 1980.ĭenton passed away in Virginia Beach in 2014. For his heroic actions as a POW, Admiral Denton received the Navy Cross. The Navy says that despite horrendous treatment, Admiral Denton never provided military information to the enemy.ĭenton was freed in 1973 and retired from naval service in 1977. Denton reportedly blinked out the word “torture” in Morse code during a media interview to indicate that his fellow American POWs were undergoing torture. He spent more than seven years, nearly half in isolation, as a prisoner of war. The Navy credits Denton with developing certain operational tactics including the Haystack Concept, which aims to organize carriers so that they are more difficult for the enemy to discover.Īdmiral Denton’s aircraft was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965.
Senator who lived in Virginia Beach.Īdmiral Denton graduated from the Naval Academy in 1947 and spent his first years in the fleet in aviation as a test pilot, instructor, and squadron leader.
One of the Navy’s future destroyers has been named for Admiral Jeremiah Denton, a Naval Academy graduate, Vietnam veteran, and former U.S. Navy rendering of the future USS Jeremiah Denton.
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