CHARLES H. CALLAWAY, LT, USN
Charles Callaway '24
Lucky Bag
From the 1924 Lucky Bag:
Loss
Charles was lost when the airship USS Akron (ZRS 4) crashed off the coast of New Jersey on April 4, 1933.
He was survived by his wife, son, mother, and sister.
Akron's executive officer, LCDR Herbert V. Wiley '15, one of only three survivors, was filmed shortly after the crash:
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William Moffett '90, Fred Berry '08, Henry Cecil '10, Frank McCord '11, Harold Maclellan '18, Joseph Severyns '20, George Calnan '20, Richard Cross, Jr. '21, Herbert Wescoat '23, Robert Sayre '24, Hammond Dugan '24, Charles Miller '25, Morgan Redfield '26, Wilfred Bushnell '26, and Cyrus Clendening '27 were also lost aboard Akron.
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.
July 1924
Ensign, Naval Academy
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September 1924
Ensign, Naval Academy
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November 1924
Ensign, Naval Academy
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January 1925
Ensign, Naval Academy
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March 1925
Ensign, Naval Academy
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October 1926
Ensign, USS Shirk
January 1927
Ensign, USS Shirk
April 1927
Ensign, USS Shirk
October 1927
Ensign, USS Shirk
April 1928
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Wood
July 1928
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Wood
October 1928
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Wood
January 1929
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Wood
April 1929
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Wood
July 1929
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Tennessee
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October 1929
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Tennessee
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January 1930
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Tennessee
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April 1930
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Tennessee
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October 1930
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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January 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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April 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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July 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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October 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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January 1932
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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April 1932
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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October 1932
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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January 1933
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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April 1933
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
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Class of 1924
Charles is one of 42 members of the Class of 1924 on Virtual Memorial Hall.