Ernest Carl Castle
Ernest Carl Castle is a Captain (Ret.) in the United States Navy.
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| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Korean War Vietnam |
Biography
Ernest C. Castle was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1926. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1948. Castle was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in clearing a fouled mine from the otter of the USS Chatterer (AMS-40) during operations off Korea in May 1952. He was the Naval Attaché to Israel during both the USS Liberty incident and the Six-Day War. Castle earned his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1984, and joined the faculty there following retirement from the Navy.
See also
References
- The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship, by A. Jay Cristo page xix
- MilitaryTimes http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=55382
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