October 5, 1913 - Washington D.C. - Eugene Bennett Fluckey is born
January(?) 1(?), 1928 - Washington D.C. - Eugene graduates from Western High School
January(?) 1(?), 1929 - Mercersburg, Pennsylvania - Eugene's father sends him to Mercersburg Academy for being still too young to go to College
June 13, 1931 - Annapolis, Maryland - Eugene Fluckey enters the U.S.Naval Academy
June 6, 1935 - Annapolis, Maryland - Fluckey graduates from U.S.Naval Academy and is commissioned an Ensign
May 1(?), 1936 - ? - Fluckey is transfered to the destroyer USS McCormick (DD-223)
June 1(?), 1938 - Groton, Connecticut - Fluckey reports for instruction at the Submarine School New London, Connecticut
December 1(?), 1938 - Groton, Connecticut - Upon submarine instruction completion, Fluckey start serving on the USS S-42 (SS-153) =(START)
June 1(?), 1941 - ? - Fluckey is assigned to the USS Bonita (SS-165)
June 1(?), 1942 - ? - After 5 five war patrols, Fluckey is detached from USS Bonita
January(?) 1(?) 1943 - Annapolis, Maryland - Fluckey returns to Annapolis for graduate instruction in Naval engineering
December 1(?), 1943 - Groton, Connecticut - Fluckey attends the Prospective Commanding Officer's School at the Submarine Base New London
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| USS Barb (SS-220) |
May 21, 1944 - Midway Island - USS Barb departs for the Sea of Okhotsk on her eight war patrol
May 31, 1944 - SW of Paramushir, Kurils - USS Barb sinks the transport Ships "Madras Maru" and "Koto Maru"
June 11, 1944 - Sea of Okhotsk, E of Karafuto - USS Barb destroys 2 japanese sampans with gunfire and sinks the fishing vessels "Chihaya Maru" and "Toten Maru"
June 13, 1944 - Sea of Okhotsk - USS Barb sinks the japanese transport "Takashima Maru"
July 5, 1944 - Midway Island - USS Barb returns from her eight war patrol
August 4, 1944 - Midway Island - USS Barb departs for the South China Sea on her ninth war patrol
August 31, 1944 - Luzon Strait, S of Formosa - USS Barb sinks the transport ship "Okuni Maru" and the auxiliary minesweeper "Hinode Maru no.20"
September 4, 1944 - SW of Formosa - Sampan sunk with gunfire
September 15, 1944 - Luzon Strait - On the night of 15/16, USS Barb rescues 14 australian and british POW survivors of the SS Rakuyo Maru, sunk on the 12th by USS Sealion
September 17, 1944 - 220 nm SE of Hong Kong - USS Barb sinks the "Un'yō" escort carrier, and the tanker "Asuza Maru"
September 25, 1944 - Saipan - USS Barb arrives at Saipan to end her ninth war patrol
September 26, 1944 - Saipan - USS Barb departs to Majuro
October 27, 1944 - Majuro, Marshall Islands - USS Barb departs for the South China Sea on her tenth war patrol
November 10, 1944 - Off Koshiki Jima, Eastern Kyushu, Japan - USS Barb sinks the transport ship "Gokoku Maru"
November 12, 1944 - East China Sea - USS Barb sinks the transport Ship "Naruo Maru" and damages the merchant "Gyokuyo Maru" (which is sunk on 14th by USS Spadefish)
November 25, 1944 - Midway Island - USS Barb returns to Midway on the end of her tenth war patrol
December 19, 1944 - Midway Island - USS Barb departs for her eleventh war patrol, in the Formosa Strait
January 8, 1945 - Formosa Strait - USS Barb sinks the merchants "Anyo Maru" and "Tatsuyo Maru", the tanker "Sanyo Maru" and damages the transport ship "Meiho Maru"
January 9, 1945 - NW Formosa - USS Barb mortally damages the tanker "Hikoshima Maru", which is beached
January 23, 1945 - Namkwan, China - USS Barb enters the shallow harbour of Namkwan and sinks the merchant "Taikyo Maru" - Medal of Honor Action
February 10, 1945 - Midway Island - USS Barb returns to Midway on the end of her eleventh war patrol
February 11, 1945 - Midway Island - USS Barb departs for Pearl Harbor
February 15, 1945 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - USS Barb arrives at Pearl Harbor
February 27, 1945 - Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California - USS Barb starts a major overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard
June 8, 1945 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - USS Barb departs from Pearl Harbor for her 12th war patrol
June 21, 1945 - NW Coast of Hokkaido - USS Barb sinks two japanese tugs
June 23, 1945 - La Perouse Strait - USS Barb sinks a japanese fishing vessel with gunfire
July 2, 1945 - Kaihyo Island, off east coast of Karafuto - Fluckey employs rockets in a bombardment of japanese shore installations, for the first time in history. USS Barb destroys 3 japanese sampans with gunfire
July 5, 1945 - Outside Odomari Harbour, SW of Sakhalin - USS Barb sinks the merchant "Sapporo Maru No.11"
July 8, 1945 - La Perouse Strait - USS Barb sinks a japanese tug with gunfire
July 15, 1945 - Off Hokkaido - USS Barb sinks the japanese sampan "Seiho Maru No.15" with gunfire
July 25, 1945 - Eastern tip of Sakhalin - USS Barb destroys 6 japanese sampans with gunfire
July 26, 1945 - East Coast of Hokkaido - USS Barb shells a japanese shipyard and destroys 35 sampans under construction. Later she also sinks a japanese trawler with gunfire
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| USS Barb battleflag. Midway 1945 |
September 1(?), 1945 - Groton, Connecticut - Fluckey is ordered to Groton, to fit out the USS Dogfish and to be it's commanding officer
November 1(?), 1945 - Washington D.C. - Transfered to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy to work directly for James V. Forrestal on plans for the unification of the Armed Forces
June 9, 1947 - Groton, Connecticut - Assumes command of USS Halfbeak
May 1(?), 1948 - Norfolk, Virginia - Fluckey is ordered to the staff of the commander of the Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet to set up the Submarine Naval Reserve Force
August 1(?), 1950 - Lisbon, Portugal - Fluckey becomes flag secretary to Admiral James Fife Jr, and serves as the US Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air to Portugal
August 1(?), 1953 - Bangor, Washington - Fluckey becomes commander of Submarine Division 52, of Squadron 5
June 1(?), 1954 - San Diego - Fluckey takes command of the Submarine Tender USS Sperry
October 14, 1955 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii(?) - Fluckey takes command of Submarine Flotilla Seven
January 14, 1956 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii(?) - Fluckey is appointed Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Naval Academy
February(?) 1(?), 1956 - Annapolis, Maryland(?) - Fluckey arrives to the Naval Academy
July 1(?), 1960 - Norfolk, Virginia - Fluckey is promoted to Rear-Admiral, as commander of Amphibious Group 4
April 18, 1961 - Norfolk, Virginia - Fluckey departs with the task force "Solant Amity II" to North african ports
April 30, 1961 - Bathurst, Gambia - Solant Amity II arrives to Bathurst, Gambia
May 5, 1961 - Bathurst, Gambia - Solant Amity II departs from Bathurst, Gambia
May 19, 1961 - Durban, South Africa - Solant Amity II arrives to Durban, South Africa
May 24, 1961 - Durban, South Africa - Solant Amity II departs from Durban, South Africa
May 31, 1961 - Diego Suarez, Madagascar - Solant Amity II arrives to Diego Suarez, Madagascar
June 5, 1961 - Diego Suarez, Madagascar - Solant Amity II departs from Diego Suarez, Madagascar
June 7, 1961 - Port Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles Islands - Solant Amity II arrives to Port Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles Islands
June 12, 1961 - Port Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles Islands - Solant Amity II departs from Port Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles Islands
June 15, 1961 - St.Denis, Reunión Island - Solant Amity II arrives to Reunión
June 18, 1961 - St.Denis, Reunión Island - Solant Amity II departs from Reunión
June 23, 1961 - Zanzibar, Tanzania - Solant Amity II arrives to Zanzibar
June 24, 1961 - Zanzibar, Tanzania - Solant Amity II departs from Zanzibar
June 26, 1961 - Mombasa, Kenya - Solant Amity II arrives to Mombasa
June 29, 1961 - Mombasa, Kenya - Solant Amity II departs from Mombasa
July 4, 1961 - Aden, Yemen - Solant Amity II arrives to Aden
July 7, 1961 - Aden, Yemen - Solant Amity II departs from Aden
July 12, 1961 - Mombasa, Kenya - Solant Amity II returns to Mombasa
July 13, 1961 - Mombasa, Kenya - Solant Amity II departs from Mombasa
July 19, 1961 - Cape Town, South Africa - Solant Amity II arrives to Cape Town, South Africa
July 29, 1961 - Cape Town, South Africa - Solant Amity II departs from Cape Town, South Africa
August 7, 1961 - Lome, Togo - Solant Amity II arrives to Lome, Togo
August 12, 1961 - Lome, Togo - Solant Amity II departs from Lome, Togo
August 14, 1961 - Libreville, Gabon - Solant Amity II arrives to Libreville, Gabon
August 19, 1961 - Libreville, Gabon - Solant Amity II departs from Libreville, Gabon
August 26(?), 1961 - Recife, Brazil - Solant Amity II arrives to Recife, Brazil
August 30(?), 1961 - Recife, Brazil - Solant Amity II departs from Recife, Brazil
September 1, 1961 - Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago - Solant Amity II arrives to Trinidad
September 2, 1961 - Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago - Solant Amity II departs from Trinidad
September 5, 1961 - Norfolk, Virginia - Fluckey returns to Norfolk with the "Solant Amity II" mission
November 1(?), 1961 - Washington D.C. - Fluckey becomes the President of the Naval Board of Inspection and Survey
June 1(?), 1964 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Fluckey takes command of Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet
July 1(?), 1966 - Suitland, Maryland - Fluckey becomes the Director of Naval Intelligence
July(?) 1(?), 1968 - Lisbon, Portugal(?) - Fluckey becomes Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Portugal
July 27, 1970 - Lisbon, Portugal - As the former portuguese dictator, Salazar, dies. Fluckey is one of his pall bearers at Jerónimos Monastery
October 29, 1971 - Lisbon, Portugal - Américo Thomaz, the new portuguese president, commissions the IBERLANT New Headquarters
August 1(?), 1972 - Lisbon, Portugal(?) - Fluckey retires from Active Duty as a Rear-Admiral
January 1(?), 1979 - Crofton - The Fluckeys move into their daughter's home, where they stay until Marjorie's death in August
September 1(?), 1979 - Sintra, Portugal - Fluckey returns to Portugal and spreads his wife's ashes in the gardens she so loved at their Quinta and on the grouds of the orphanage
May 1(?), 1980 - Sintra, Portugal - Fluckey meets Eleanor Margaret Wallace, a british divorced subject with homes in Wales and the Isle of Mann
August 20, 1980 - Isle of Mann, England - Eugene Fluckey marries Eleanor Margaret Wallace
August(?) 1(?), 1981 - Annapolis, Maryland - Eugene and Margaret Fluckey sell their houses in Portugal and on the Isle of Mann and relocate to a home near the Naval Academy
November 13, 1981 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Medal of Honor Society convention - Four WW2 submarine commanders are present - Lawson P.Ramage, Richard H. O'Kane, George L.Street III and Eugene Fluckey
October 1(?), 1983 - Tokyo, Japan - The city's Togo Shrine is closed to tourists for a banquet in honor of Eugene and Margaret Fluckey
December 12, 1983 - New York City - Admiral Fluckey attends a special luncheon to honor President Ronald Reagan, who receives the Patriots award from 200 surviving members of the Medal of Honor Society
August 29, 1986 - Baltimore, Maryland - Reunion of Fluckey and 43 other USS Barb crewmen
November 17, 1989 - Groton, Connecticut - Fluckey addresses enlisted men and officers at the dedication of Fluckey Hall at the Naval submarine school
January 30, 1990 - Groton, Connecticut(?) - Barb torpedoman Don Miller reunites with Jack Flynn for the 1st time in 50 years in Brisbane, Australia. Flynn was captured while fighting in Burma for the British and later was cast adrift on flotsam in the South China Sea. The Barb miraculously located Flynn and 13 other survivors
September 5, 1990 - Kissimmee, Florida - Emotional reunion between 38 USS Barb crewmen, Jack Flynn and Don Miller
June 4, 1991 - Nam Kwan Harbor, China - Fluckey arrives to determine whether the Barb sunk more than a single ship in its daring attack on the port where a 27-ship japanese convoy was at anchor
January(?) 1(?), 1992 - Cleveland, Ohio - Fluckey is guest of honor for the rechristening of the USS Cod (SS-224), a memorial on the Cleveland Waterfront
February 12, 1992 - Groton, Connecticut - Fluckey is the surprise guest at a wine and cheese party hosted by the Commanding Officer of the Naval Submarine Base
May 9, 1992 - Moscow, Russia - Eugene and Margaret Fluckey march in the russian Peace Victory Parade
December 11, 1992 - Mississippi River - 76 USS Barb shipmates and their wives join Admiral Fluckey and wife for a 4-day cruise on the Mississippi River
May 31, 1993 - Washington D.C. - Fluckey and wife enjoy breakfast with the Clintons, as sole representative for all the veterans of World War II at a memorial Day ceremony at the White House and Arlington Cemetery
March 26, 1994 - Kansas City, Missouri - Admiral Fluckey and his wife are inducted into the Sovereign Military Order of St.John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta
August 1, 1994 - Washington D.C. - Eugene Fluckey finishes his speaking tour, promoting his book
July 4, 1995 - Pueblo, Colorado - Admiral Fluckey attends a ceremony honoring 16 recipients of the Medal of Honor
September 15, 1995 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Fluckey provides introductory remarks for President Bill Clinton at the 50th Anniversary of the Allied Triumph in WW2
November 3, 1995 - Kings Bay, Georgia - Fluckey is the guest speaker at the dedication of Fluckey Hall at the Naval Submarine Base
May 14, 1996 - Vancouver, Canada - Eugene and Margaret Fluckey, along with USS Barb shipmates and wives, board the SS Nordham for a 7-day cruise of the island passage of Alaska
December(?) 1(?), 1996 - Yokosuka, Japan - Admiral Fluckey and his wife attend the inauguration of Yokosuka's Naval Base new headquarters - Fluckey Hall
April 18, 1997 - Yokosuka, Japan - Eugene and Margaret Fluckey are guests of honor at a ball to mark the 97th birthday of the submarine navies of Japan and the United States
August(?) 1(?), 1998 - Washington D.C. - Meeting with retired Naval Officers and Ohio Senator John Glenn, the first american to orbit the Earth, and that was a passanger aboard the USS Barb off Midway in 1944
January(?) 1(?), 1999 - Annapolis, Maryland - Eugene Fluckey is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease
April 3, 2003 - Annapolis, Maryland - Fluckey's last appearance at a USS Barb veterans reunion
December 7, 2004 - Annapolis, Maryland - Fluckey sends a letter to be read by Neal Sever, the former USS Barb signalman who took part in sabotaging an enemy train in 1945, at the opening of a Medal of Honor Gallery in the Submarine Force Library and Museum
November 12, 2005 - Annapolis, Maryland - As Fluckey moves to Arbor Nursing Home due to severe Alzheimer's disease, his wife Margaret accepts the Chester Nimitz Award for Outstanding Service during the War in his name
November 1(?), 2006 - Annapolis, Maryland - Fluckey receives recognition from Vice Adm. Charles Munns, commander of Submarine forces, at Arbor Nursing Home, Annapolis
June 28, 2007 - Annapolis, Maryland - Eugene Fluckey dies at Arbor Nursing Home, aged 93 =(END)
