Ships
- USS Haddock (SS-231) Commanding officer from commissioning, 14 March 1942 · Relieved on 5 March 1943
Arthur Howard Taylor was born in Philadelphia on 18 March 1905. He graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of 1927. The Lucky Bag calls him Otts and Art. The face is that midshipman.
He commanded the submarine S-16 from 2 December 1940 into September 1941, as a lieutenant. On 14 March 1942 he commissioned Haddock (SS-231) at Portsmouth as a lieutenant commander.
The first patrol, 28 July to 19 September 1942, in the East China Sea, brought him a Navy Cross. She sank Tatsuho Maru on 22 August and Teishun Maru on 26 August. The second patrol, 11 October to 4 December, brought a second Navy Cross. Tekkai Maru, Venice Maru, and Nichinan Maru went down, and France Maru was damaged. On the third patrol the Dictionary records an unidentified freighter on 17 January 1943 and two hits on 19 January. uboat.net records Genyo Maru that day. He turned Haddock (SS-231) over to Roy Milton Davenport on 5 March 1943.
He was promoted to temporary captain on 20 March 1945. He retired as a rear admiral. He died at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 11 December 1982.