GEORGE S. FULLER, LT, USN
George Fuller '35
Lucky Bag
From the 1935 Lucky Bag:
GEORGE STEWART FULLER
Winchester, Virginia
"Carvel Charlie" "Goat" "Honest George"
THAWING reserve gave way to jovial laughter, and Honest George's big heart and generous nature won innumerable friends. The regularity of his attendance at Carvel and his unexcelled heat in doing the Shag soon earned him the name of Carvel Charlie. On Christmas leave, with cigar, derby, and Chesterfield, top hat, tails, and cane, he was a curly haired menace. A veteran at goal line stands in academics, his zeal and ambition is tempered with an ardent love for rest and sleep. Goat is a staunch member of the Radiator Club, a radio savoir, buys two cartons of Camels a month and smokes three, wears white socks without garters, and gargles Listerine.
Radio Club 3, 2, 1. 1 P.O.
GEORGE STEWART FULLER
Winchester, Virginia
"Carvel Charlie" "Goat" "Honest George"
THAWING reserve gave way to jovial laughter, and Honest George's big heart and generous nature won innumerable friends. The regularity of his attendance at Carvel and his unexcelled heat in doing the Shag soon earned him the name of Carvel Charlie. On Christmas leave, with cigar, derby, and Chesterfield, top hat, tails, and cane, he was a curly haired menace. A veteran at goal line stands in academics, his zeal and ambition is tempered with an ardent love for rest and sleep. Goat is a staunch member of the Radiator Club, a radio savoir, buys two cartons of Camels a month and smokes three, wears white socks without garters, and gargles Listerine.
Radio Club 3, 2, 1. 1 P.O.
Life and Loss
George completed the Naval Finance and Supply School course. He served at the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor in 1937.
George was lost when USS Juneau (CL 52) was sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. He was a member of the supply corps.
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
George graduated from the Shenandoah Valley Academy. He was selected by the National Guard to take examinations for appointment to West Point. In July 1931, private George was a member of the headquarters company of the 116th Infantry when he qualified for entrance to the academy at West Point but lost on the competitive examinations.
In January 1942, he was promoted to Lieutenant.
His father Colonel Leigh Austin Fuller died July 28, 1932. Retired from the U. S. Army medical corps, he received two silver service citations for gallantry and heroism during the Cuban War and Mexican disturbance, and also served in the Philippines and in the World War. His mother Helen died earlier. His brother L. A. was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1932. George also had a married sister.
His wife was listed as next of kin.
His brother, Leigh, also survived him, but died as a Japanese prisoner of war in June 1943. Leigh graduated West Point in 1928.
The "Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps" was published annually from 1815 through at least the 1970s; it provided rank, command or station, and occasionally billet until the beginning of World War II when command/station was no longer included. Scanned copies were reviewed and data entered from the mid-1840s through 1922, when more-frequent Navy Directories were available.
The Navy Directory was a publication that provided information on the command, billet, and rank of every active and retired naval officer. Single editions have been found online from January 1915 and March 1918, and then from three to six editions per year from 1923 through 1940; the final edition is from April 1941.
The entries in both series of documents are sometimes cryptic and confusing. They are often inconsistent, even within an edition, with the name of commands; this is especially true for aviation squadrons in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Alumni listed at the same command may or may not have had significant interactions; they could have shared a stateroom or workspace, stood many hours of watch together… or, especially at the larger commands, they might not have known each other at all. The information provides the opportunity to draw connections that are otherwise invisible, though, and gives a fuller view of the professional experiences of these alumni in Memorial Hall.
October 1935
LT James McDonough '24 (Fighting Plane Squadron (VF) 5B)
LTjg Baylies Clark '30 (Bombing Plane Squadron (VB) 1B)
LTjg Eugene Lytle, Jr. '31 (Fighting Plane Squadron (VF) 5B)
January 1936
LTjg Eugene Lytle, Jr. '31 (Fighting Plane Squadron (VF) 5B)
LTjg George Ottinger '32 (Bombing Plane Squadron (VB) 5B)
April 1936
LTjg Eugene Lytle, Jr. '31 (Fighting Plane Squadron (VF) 5B)
LTjg George Ottinger '32 (Bombing Plane Squadron (VB) 5B)
July 1936
LTjg Vernon Hain '31 (Bombing Plane Squadron (VB) 3B)
LTjg Philip Ashworth '31 (Scouting Plane Squadron (VS) 3B)
LTjg Truman Carpenter '32 (Bombing Plane Squadron (VB) 3B)
LTjg George Ottinger '32 (Bombing Plane Squadron (VB) 5B)
January 1937
April 1937
CAPT David Claude '24 (Marine Corps Schools, Marine Barracks)
LTjg Dudley Morton '30 (Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
2LT Ralph Haas '36 (Marine Corps Schools, Marine Barracks)
September 1937
January 1938
July 1938
January 1939
October 1939
June 1940
November 1940
April 1941
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