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Daniel Barbey

SurnameBarbey
Given NameDaniel
Born13 Dec 1889
Died11 Mar 1969
CountryUnited States
CategoryMilitary-Sea
GenderMale

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ww2dbaseDaniel Edward Barbey was born in Portland. He was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1908 and graduated as an Ensign in June 1912, assgiend to the cruiser California upon his graduation. In May 1914, he was transferred to USS Lawrence where he eventually became an executive officer and later commanding officer. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant (jg) on 8 June 1915, lieutenant on 8 June 1918, lieutenant commander on 15 October 1922, commander in September 1933, and captain in February 1940. During these promotions, received a letter of commendation from the Secretary of the Navy while serving in Mexican waters aboard the Lawrence, and served aboard USS Stevens, base at Cardiff in Wales, base in Constantinople in Turkey, as aide to Admiral Bristol, aboard USS Capella, aboard battleship Oklahoma, Naval Recruiting Station in Portland in United States, aboard cruiser Cincinnati, aboard the USS Ramapo, aide to the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, aboard the USS Lea, Mare Island Naval Ammunition Depot in California, aboard battleship New York, again aboard Ramapo, as Commander of Destroyer Division 17, Bureau of Navigation's War Plans Section in Washington DC, and finally aboard New York before he was assigned to assume the duties of Chief of Staff to Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs of the Commander Service Force Atlantic Fleet, in January 1941.

ww2dbaseAs the war raged on, Barbey served on the staff of Admiral Ernest King as he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in June 1942. He commanded the Navy's first Amphibious Warfare Section after organizing the new section. By June 1943, six months after he arrived in Australia, he had turned a small training commanding into a major amphibious operation and was ready for combat missions. He led the Seventh Amphibious Force in landings in Kiriwina, Woodlark, Lao, Finschhafen, Arawe, and Cape Gloucester during the later half of 1943. By 1944, the force took part in over twenty landings, including key landings in the Philippines. Barbey was promoted to the rank of vice admiral on 9 December 1944.

ww2dbaseAfter WW2, Barbey remained with the Seventh Amphibious Force while taking on a concurrent duty as the commander of the US Seventh Fleet from November 1945 to 8 Jan 1946. After his service as the commander of the US Fourth Fleet, he became the Far East Chairman of the Joint Military Board in February 1947. He held several more positions after that, including the Commandant of the Tenth Naval District, Commander Caribbean Sea Frontier, and posts in the 13th Naval District. He retired from Navy service on 30 June 1951, and passed away in Bremerton, Washington, in 1969.

ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia.

Last Major Revision: Mar 2006

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Photographs

Theodore Wilkinson, Thomas Kinkaid, and Daniel Barbey, circa 1944Barbey and Kinkaid over a map of New Guinea, 5 Jan 1944Barbey and MacArthur inspected the invasion beaches at Morotai Island, 15 Sep 1944United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and Navy Rear Admiral Daniel Barbey leaving USS Nashville aboard an LCM to inspect the landing beaches on Morotai, 15 Sep 1944.
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Daniel Barbey Timeline

13 Dec 1889 Daniel Barbey was born.
11 Mar 1969 Daniel Barbey passed away.




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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Bryan White says:
16 May 2005 11:33:04 AM

You've got a first class collections of articles but you've got a little trouble with the editing. For example in this article you state that Barbey "would become the Navy's first Amphibious Warfare Section" when you obviously meant that he COMMANDED the First Amphibious Warfare Section."You should pay more attention to the editing since it might cause people to underestimate the excellent website you've got
2. BRENDA BARBEY says:
22 Mar 2007 05:08:35 PM

I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT CEMETERY I CAN FIND DANIEL EBARBEY
3. nicole johnson says:
26 Aug 2016 04:59:20 PM


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4. Claudia Meyer says:
6 Feb 2021 04:38:46 PM

My dad was a photographer's mate who took many of these pictures.

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Theodore Wilkinson, Thomas Kinkaid, and Daniel Barbey, circa 1944
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