Er ist verheiratet mit Elizabeth Matthews "Bessie" Crenshaw.
Sie haben geheiratet am 26. Oktober 1932 in St Francis, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten, er war 22 Jahre alt.Quelle 13
Sie haben geheiratet in Clayton Arkansas, Verenigde Staten.Quelle 5Kind(er):
Charles Ballance Brooks Jr.
Birth 4 May 1910
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Death 28 Jul 1969 (aged 59)
Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Burial USA Naval Academy Cemetery
Annapolis, Maryland, USA
A United States Navy Rear Admiral. He attended the public schools in Memphis, Tennessee before entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1927.
He graduated in 1931, receiving a commission of Ensign, and was assigned to the battleship "USS New York". In 1937 he attended post-graduate school at Annapolis and concluded those courses in 1939.
He was assigned as the Communication Officer on the staff of Commander Cruiser Division Five, on the flagship "USS Northampton".
From 1942 to 1944 he had tours of duty on the aircraft carriers "USS Yorktown", "USS Saratoga" and "USS Bunker Hill". By 1945 he was an instructor at the Naval Postgraduate School and in May of 1945 he was on staff duty on board the battleships "USS Missouri" and "USS South Dakota". For the next fourteen years, he was assigned to different ships and in 1958 he was assigned as Joint Chief of Staff, Washington, DC.
Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1959, and 1961 he was made Commander of Cruiser Division Two. In 1962 he last was assigned duty as Director of Naval Warfare Analyses in Newport, Rhode Island.
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