Ships
- USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) Captain from 22 December 1944 · Relieved on 31 October 1945
Charles Boardman Hunt commissioned Oklahoma City (CL-91) on 22 December 1944 and had her through the Okinawa cruise, the occupation, and the trip home, until 31 October 1945. NavSource lists him as a captain and gives no later rank. Hall of Valor says he retired as a rear admiral.
Find a Grave gives his birth as 4 December 1896 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, and his death as 16 November 1965 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, aged 68. The burial is Arlington National Cemetery, section 4, site 3197-A. Hall of Valor and uboat.net give the same two days. uboat.net gives no places. Hall of Valor gives no places.
Hall of Valor says he graduated from the Naval Academy, class of 1919. uboat.net dates him a commander from 13 February 1939 and a temporary captain from 17 June 1942. Neither page names a ship before the war.
The Navy Cross is for August and September 1942, as commanding officer of the cargo ship Alhena (AK-26), carrying supplies, equipment, and reinforcements during and after the occupation of Guadalcanal. The citation says the ship met high bombing, dive-bombing, or torpedo attacks each time she entered that area, and that on 30 September she was torpedoed on the way back to base. He kept her afloat, kept her off a shoal, and brought her in for repairs after the hit flooded her aft and put a propeller shaft out of action. The citation prints the shoal as near "Rennel Island" and the phrase "en rout to base."
uboat.net and NavSource then give him Oklahoma City from 22 December 1944 to 31 October 1945, as a temporary captain on the uboat page and as a captain on NavSource. DANFS names Capt. Charles B. Hunt at the commissioning. The ship's war cruise, the escort of Bennington into Tokyo Bay, and the occupation duty through January 1946 all fall inside his dates. He was relieved at San Francisco on 31 October 1945, before the inactivation.
Hall of Valor says only that he retired as a rear admiral. Find a Grave gives the death in Akron and the Arlington grave. No retirement date was on the fetched pages.