Distinct as the Billows
Yet one as the Sea
Taken from "The Washington Post"
Edward Maynard Day, 81, a Navy captain who retired in 1961 after having served as inspector general of the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Weapons, died of heart ailments Oct. 19 at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Capt. Day, who lived in Bethesda, was born in Washington. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1931. During the 1930s, he served aboard destroyers and then was torpedo officer of the light cruiser Memphis for four years. Later, he studied torpedo design in Annapolis and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1940.
He was a torpedo specialist on the Pacific Fleet staff and then at the torpedo station at Newport, R.I. Later duty included command of a naval operating base in Greenland, command of a transport division and an amphibious force in the Atlantic, and service on the staff of the Atlantic amphibious force and at the Pentagon.
He was commander of the ammunition ship Mt. Katmai in the Pacific, then served at the Naval Research Laboratory and as chief of staff of a service squadron in the Pacific before his appointment as inspector general.
On retiring from the Navy, Capt. Day worked 10 years for McDonnell Aircraft Corp. as resident representative of the Westinghouse air arm division in Baltimore.
Beginning in 1981, he spent 10 years as secretary of his Naval Academy class.
Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Ruth Bahrs Day of Bethesda; one daughter, Diana Kelm of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; three granddaughters and two great-grandsons.
Yet one as the Sea
Taken from "The Washington Post"
Edward Maynard Day, 81, a Navy captain who retired in 1961 after having served as inspector general of the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Weapons, died of heart ailments Oct. 19 at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Capt. Day, who lived in Bethesda, was born in Washington. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1931. During the 1930s, he served aboard destroyers and then was torpedo officer of the light cruiser Memphis for four years. Later, he studied torpedo design in Annapolis and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1940.
He was a torpedo specialist on the Pacific Fleet staff and then at the torpedo station at Newport, R.I. Later duty included command of a naval operating base in Greenland, command of a transport division and an amphibious force in the Atlantic, and service on the staff of the Atlantic amphibious force and at the Pentagon.
He was commander of the ammunition ship Mt. Katmai in the Pacific, then served at the Naval Research Laboratory and as chief of staff of a service squadron in the Pacific before his appointment as inspector general.
On retiring from the Navy, Capt. Day worked 10 years for McDonnell Aircraft Corp. as resident representative of the Westinghouse air arm division in Baltimore.
Beginning in 1981, he spent 10 years as secretary of his Naval Academy class.
Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Ruth Bahrs Day of Bethesda; one daughter, Diana Kelm of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; three granddaughters and two great-grandsons.
Distinct as the Billows
Yet one as the Sea
Taken from "The Washington Post"
Edward Maynard Day, 81, a Navy captain who retired in 1961 after having served as inspector general of the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Weapons, died of heart ailments Oct. 19 at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Capt. Day, who lived in Bethesda, was born in Washington. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1931. During the 1930s, he served aboard destroyers and then was torpedo officer of the light cruiser Memphis for four years. Later, he studied torpedo design in Annapolis and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1940.
He was a torpedo specialist on the Pacific Fleet staff and then at the torpedo station at Newport, R.I. Later duty included command of a naval operating base in Greenland, command of a transport division and an amphibious force in the Atlantic, and service on the staff of the Atlantic amphibious force and at the Pentagon.
He was commander of the ammunition ship Mt. Katmai in the Pacific, then served at the Naval Research Laboratory and as chief of staff of a service squadron in the Pacific before his appointment as inspector general.
On retiring from the Navy, Capt. Day worked 10 years for McDonnell Aircraft Corp. as resident representative of the Westinghouse air arm division in Baltimore.
Beginning in 1981, he spent 10 years as secretary of his Naval Academy class.
Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Ruth Bahrs Day of Bethesda; one daughter, Diana Kelm of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; three granddaughters and two great-grandsons.
Yet one as the Sea
Taken from "The Washington Post"
Edward Maynard Day, 81, a Navy captain who retired in 1961 after having served as inspector general of the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Weapons, died of heart ailments Oct. 19 at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Capt. Day, who lived in Bethesda, was born in Washington. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1931. During the 1930s, he served aboard destroyers and then was torpedo officer of the light cruiser Memphis for four years. Later, he studied torpedo design in Annapolis and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1940.
He was a torpedo specialist on the Pacific Fleet staff and then at the torpedo station at Newport, R.I. Later duty included command of a naval operating base in Greenland, command of a transport division and an amphibious force in the Atlantic, and service on the staff of the Atlantic amphibious force and at the Pentagon.
He was commander of the ammunition ship Mt. Katmai in the Pacific, then served at the Naval Research Laboratory and as chief of staff of a service squadron in the Pacific before his appointment as inspector general.
On retiring from the Navy, Capt. Day worked 10 years for McDonnell Aircraft Corp. as resident representative of the Westinghouse air arm division in Baltimore.
Beginning in 1981, he spent 10 years as secretary of his Naval Academy class.
Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Ruth Bahrs Day of Bethesda; one daughter, Diana Kelm of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; three granddaughters and two great-grandsons.
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