Waters, Odale D., Jr. Rear Adm., USN (Ret.)

The naval career of Rear Admiral Odale D. Waters Jr., U.S. Navy, culminated with his 1965 appointment as Oceanographer of the Navy. He passed away on 7 May 1986. 

Articles by Odale D. Waters Jr.

NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER

Piddly Poom to Spectacular Boom

By Rear Admiral Odale D. Waters Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired)
August 2006
Skipper of a destroyer participating in the Crossroads tests at Bikini Atoll, then-Commander Waters was underwhelmed by the first atomic blast but awed by the second.

On Serving One's Country

By Commander O. D. Waters, Jr., U. S. Navy
February 1953
Shortly after the Napoleonic Wars there was a song of considerable popularity among sailors of the British Navy, the words of which run somewhat as follows: “When we did bang ...