Ships
- USS Siboney (CVE-112) Captain from 9 March 1946
William Onahan "Bill" Gallery was born in Chicago on 22 June 1904, the son of lawyer Daniel Vincent Gallery and writer Mary Onahan Gallery. He was one of three brothers who became Navy admirals; his older brother was Daniel V. Gallery, captor of U-505. He entered the Naval Academy in 1921 and was commissioned in 1925. He served in the battleship New Mexico and in Farragut, then won his wings at Pensacola in 1930 and flew with Patrol Squadron 6, the cruiser Omaha, and Fighting Squadron 6 in Enterprise (1937–39), with a tour at the Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory in between.
In World War II he served on Admiral Kinkaid's staff at the Battle of Santa Cruz and in combat from Guadalcanal with the First Escort Carrier Task Group. Flying with the PBY "Black Cat" night raiders from the tender Half Moon, he won the Distinguished Flying Cross for his method of destroying Japanese night raiders.
Promoted to captain, he commanded Chicago, served at Eglin Field, commanded the escort carrier Siboney and NAS Guantanamo Bay, and worked in the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air). In 1950 he took Princeton. His brother wrote that Bill brought her out of mothballs and had her launching strikes off Korea in under 60 days, a record for reactivating a carrier.
He retired in June 1955 and died on 15 November 1981. He is buried at Arlington. The frigate USS Gallery honors all three Gallery admirals.