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Article: OBITUARIES; Adm. Walter F. Boone Dies; Led Naval Academy in 1950s

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March 21, 1995
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Walter F. Boone, 97, an admiral who retired in 1960 as U.S. representative to the military committee and standing group of NATO, died March 19 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a heart attack.

Adm. Boone also served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1954 to 1956 and then as commander of U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. His Navy career spanned more than 40 years, beginning in World War I when, as a Naval Academy midshipman, he served aboard the battleship Ohio in the Atlantic.

He was born in Berkeley, Calif., and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1921. He received his wings as a naval aviator in 1926 in Pensacola, Fla., and ...

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