Title: James P. Lynch Oral History Interview

Identifier: OH0181   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/62801)

Description: Captain Lynch graduated from the Naval Academy in February 1941, and had a wide range of duties in the Navy including assignments in destroyers, submarines, aircraft carriers, and auxiliary ships as well as staff assignments. He was on patrol in the Atlantic prior to World War II, and in action against German U-Boats until March 1942. In March 1942, Captain Lynch volunteered for submarine duty and, after attending submarine school, was assigned to duty in submarines for the remainder of World War II and the year following in the Western Pacific in the USS SNOOK (SS 279) and the USS SEA DOG (SS 401). At the end of the war, Captain Lynch was in command of the USS S-45 (SS 156) and subsequently the submarines USS DEVILFISH, (SS 292) and USS SARDA (SS 488). After completion of flight training in 1948, Captain Lynch was assigned duties involving flying including tours of duty as Commanding Officer of ASW Patrol Squadron FORTY-NINE, Navigator of the USS CORAL SEA (CVA 43), Commanding Officer of the USS JUPITER (AVS-8) and Commanding Officer of the USS YORKTOWN (CVS 10) and staff assignments on the Staff of General Lauris Norstad, USAF, at SHAPE, Paris France; Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Antisubmarine Warfare Group THREE, Assistant Head of the Air Weapons Analysis Staff in the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air; and Navy Planner in the office of the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Strategic Plans (OP 60). Lynch retired from active duty on August 31, 1968. - April 26, 2001