Articles by John Gordon Forester

U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE PHOTO ARCHIVE

A Remembrance: '31-Knot' Burke

By Lieutenant Commander John Gordon Forester Jr., U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
January 2008
In his first-class year, an NROTC midshipman is assigned to the cruiser Macon with the heady task of serving on the staff of a future CNO, then-Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke.