serviceyears branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance unit battles birth_date rank image article_title name
1934 -- 1942 25px united states navy at '' -lrb- cv - 8 -rrb- in the vicinity of sea midway atoll , while serving in uss '' hornet 6 june 1942 manila , the philippines united states united states of america uss '' hornet '' -lrb- cv - 8 -rrb- battle of midway 17 december 1913 20px lieutenant royal rodney ingersoll ii.jpg royal r. ingersoll ii
 royal rodney ingersoll , ii
royal r. ingersoll ii

royal rodney ingersoll , ii -lrb- 17 december 1913 -- 6 june 1942 -rrb- was an american junior naval officer , a graduate of the u.s. naval academy -lrb- 1934 -rrb- , who was killed in battle early during the war in the pacific .
ingersoll was born in manila , the philippines , and he was the son of admiral royal e. ingersoll , and the grandson of rear admiral royal r. ingersoll .
after graduating from the united states naval academy in 1934 , ingersoll served on the battleship uss `` california '' -lrb- bb - 44 -rrb- , on the destroyer uss `` cassin '' -lrb- dd-372 -rrb- , and other warships during 1934 - 41 , and he reported on board the aircraft carrier uss `` hornet '' -lrb- cv-8 -rrb- during her fitting-out -lrb- pre-commissioning -rrb- period in 1941 .
lieutenant ingersoll served on the `` hornet '' during the critical early months of the war in the pacific , including on the famous doolittle raid on tokyo in april 1942 , the `` hornet '' 's maiden combat voyage .
ingersoll served on board the uss `` hornet '' during the battle of midway from 4 june to 6 june 1942 , in which the portion of the u.s. navy fleet based in hawaii decisively defeated the imperial japanese navy -lrb- ijn -rrb- during its attack on midway island , sinking four ijn japanese aircraft carriers .
lt. ingersoll was killed at his battle station by machine gun fire from a crippled fighter plane -lrb- an f4f wildcat -rrb- from the -lrb- cv-5 -rrb- during its emergency landing on board the `` hornet '' .
its wounded pilot was either unable to , or failed to , cut off its guns .
four enlisted men on board the `` hornet '' were also killed , and 20 more sailors were wounded in this sad accident .
in 1942 , the destroyer uss `` ingersoll '' -lrb- dd-652 -rrb- was named in honor of both rear admiral royal r. ingersol and lt. royal r. ingersoll ii .
lt. ingersoll 's father , admiral royal e. ingersoll , became the commander-in-chief of the u.s. navy 's atlantic fleet on december 30 , 1941 .
