W. M. Callaghan; Led U.S. Navy in Far East
Vice Adm. William M. Callaghan, who helped organize the post-World War II Military Sea Transportation Service and later commanded all U. S. naval forces in the Far East, died last Monday. He was 93.
The admiral, who retired in 1957, died in Bethesda, Md., outside Washington, after suffering a stroke.
Callaghan also commanded the battleship Missouri in combat operations off Iwo Jima and Okinawa in World War II.
Callaghan graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1918 and spent the final weeks of World War I on destroyer duty guarding convoys crossing the Atlantic.
He was commander of the destroyer Reuben James in the late 1930s and later served in the office of the chief of naval operations. During the first two years of World War II, Callaghan was war plans officer for logistics on the staff of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet.
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