Background
HALPINE, Charles Creham was born on April 22, 1893 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nicholas J. L. T. (Lieutenant, United States Navy) and Alice Camman (Macomb) Halpine.
United States Navy Lieu tenant Commander
HALPINE, Charles Creham was born on April 22, 1893 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nicholas J. L. T. (Lieutenant, United States Navy) and Alice Camman (Macomb) Halpine.
Maryland Nautical Academy, Easton, Maryland. Public School, New York City, 1908. Stuyvesant High School, New York City, 1911.
United States Naval Academy, 1916. United States Navy Torpedo School, 1921. Flight School, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, 1923.
Naval P.-G. School, 1925-1926. Massachusetts Institute. Technical, 1927, Master of Science.
Commissioned Ensign, 1916 and assigned to duty, United States Ship Penn. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, 111. Commander Lieutenant, Junior Grade, 1917.
Assigned, Receiving Ship, Navy Yard, New York, 1918. United States Ship Princess Matoika, Troop Transport. as Gunnery Officer. 1918-1919, United States Ship.
New Mexico. Broadside Battery and Engineering, 1919-1921. Commanding Officer, United States Ship William Jones, 1922. Gunnery Officer, Cuyama, 1922.
Navigator, Rappahannock. 1922; qualified Naval Aviator, 1923. Observation-Plane Squad No.
2. Aircraft Squads., Battle Fleets. San Diego, 1923-1924. Aviation Officer. United States Ship New Mexico, 1924-1925: Naval Air Station, San Diego, California.
1925; Sunt. Aeronautical Engine Laboratory. Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1927-1928. Commanding Officer, Observation Souad.
United States Ship Wright, 1928. Scouting Plane Squadron No. 5, 1928-1929; Scouting Plane Squadron No.
6. and Staff Aviation Officer to Commander, Light Cruiser Divs., Scouting Fleet. United States Ship Detroit, since 1929. Commander Lieutenant, 1918.
Lieutenant Commander since 1927. Wrote: The Pacific Comes Into Its Own. Destroyers at Night (Seattle Times), 1919.
Member: Society Automotive Engineers. Naval Academy Graduates Association. Alumni Association of Massachusetts Institute.
Technical Club: Army and Navy (Washington, D. C.).
Spouse Helen Virginia Bullard, June 22, 1917, Radford, Virginia.