what does Chung Hoon mean ?
Oh boy, here we go...
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Wupp a$$$
Everybody was Chung Hoon fighting, huh. Those cats were fast a lightning, ha.
He was a US World War II war hero in the Navy in the Pacific. Originally from Hawaii, he graduated from Annapolis in the 30s and served with distinction in the PTO.
Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon was born on July 25, 1910, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second youngest of five Chung-Hoon children, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in May 1934. While at the Naval Academy, he was a valued member of the Navy Football team.
Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) from May 1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, Sigsbee assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese island of Kyushu. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed into Sigsbee, reducing her starboard engine to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control. Despite the damage, Admiral Chung-Hoon, then a Commander, valiantly kept his anti-aircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire" against the continuing enemy air attack while simultaneously directing the damage control efforts that allowed Sigsbee to make port under her own power.
After retiring from the Navy in 1959, Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon was appointed by William Quinn, Hawaii’s first elected governor since statehood, to serve as director of the state Department of Agriculture. Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon died in July 1979.
From Navy.mil...
The ship is named in honor of Rear Adm. Gordon Paie’a Chung-Hoon, who was born and raised in Hawaii and awarded the Navy Cross and Silver Star for gallantry as Commanding Officer of USS Sigsbee during the Battle of Okinawa. Chung-Hoon was also assigned to USS Arizona during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Named after Gordon Chung Hoon, USNA class of 1934. He was stationed on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor, commanded the USS Sigsbee off Okinawa, and retired a Rear Admiral.
Our opposite numbers over at DU were all over this.
They already posted the background on the tin can’s name...
a Navy Admiral of Hawaiian origin.
Some were even seemingly applauding the “upping of the ante”..guess they didn’t like the Chinese testing O’Bama without a response.
It’s the name of WWII hero who later became a Rear Admiral. An American from Hawaii of Chinese discent.
It means “Come and take it.”
Chung Hoon means “we’ve taken the measure of Zero.”