Ships
- USS Attu (CVE-102) Captain from 10 June 1945 · Relieved on 8 June 1946
Paul Hubert Ramsey was born on 2 February 1905. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1927 and was designated a naval aviator on 4 January 1930. Through the 1930s he flew from Lexington and Saratoga. In 1941 he took command of Fighting Squadron 2 in Lexington, with the future fighter tactician Jimmy Flatley as his executive officer.
At the Coral Sea he led the Wildcats escorting the torpedo planes that sank the light carrier Shōhō on 7 May 1942. That evening, in heavy overcast, he led an ambush on a Japanese dusk strike of torpedo and dive bombers that cost the enemy many aircraft and some of its most experienced crews, and he personally shot down two torpedo bombers. The next day he flew combat air patrol over the carriers. He received the Navy Cross.
From April 1943 he directed the flight test division at NAS Anacostia, and late in the war he commanded the escort carrier Attu. In the Korean War he commanded the carrier Philippine Sea, became the Chief of Naval Operations' director of air warfare, and later commanded Task Force 77, rising to vice admiral. He retired on 1 October 1966 after nearly forty years of service and died on 15 February 1982.