page_title: Eugene B. Fluckey
section_title: Retirement and death
hierarchical_section_title: Eugene B. Fluckey / Retirement and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Annapolis, Maryland (USA), 27 November 2006: Retired Medal of Honor recipient Rear Adm. Eugene Fluckey receives recognition from Vice Adm. Charles Munns, Commander, Naval Submarine Forces, at the Arbor Nursing Home in Annapolis, Md. Fluckey received the Medal of Honor for gallantry as commanding officer of USS Barb (SS-220) in 1944.
context_page_description: Eugene Bennett Fluckey, nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey", was a United States Navy rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine commander in World War II.
context_section_description: After he retired from the Navy in 1972, he and his wife, Marjorie, started running an orphanage in Portugal in 1974.  Marjorie died in 1979, after 42 years of marriage. He married his second wife, Margaret, in 1980 and they continued to run the orphanage together until it closed in 1982. He has one daughter, Barbara.
  His book, Thunder Below! published in 1992, depicts the exploits of his beloved Barb. "Though the tally shows more shells, bombs, and depth charges fired at Barb, no one received the Purple Heart and Barb came back alive, eager, and ready to fight again." 
  Fluckey died at age 93, from complications of Alzheimer's disease, at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28, 2007. He is buried at the  United States Naval Academy Cemetery.
caption: Fluckey, at left, being visited by Vice Admiral Charles Munns in 2006
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