Editing Gordon Chung-Hoon (section)

===World War II===

Chung-Hoon served on the battleship {{USS|Arizona|BB-39|6}} as a [[Lieutenant (navy)|lieutenant]],<ref>"[http://www.navyhistory.org/2013/12/book-review-the-men-of-the-arizona-bb-39-revised-edition/ BOOK REVIEW – The Men of the Arizona (BB-39)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307001515/http://www.navyhistory.org/2013/12/book-review-the-men-of-the-arizona-bb-39-revised-edition/# |date=2016-03-07 }}" reviewed by LCdr. Jason P. Grower, USN, Naval Historical Foundation, Dec. 6, 2016.</ref> but was in [[Honolulu]] on a weekend pass during the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]]. Chung-Hoon heard the attack from Honolulu and attempted to return to his ship but was delayed by roadblocks and traffic jams.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=48-qDw9hvB8C&dq=%22Gordon+Chung-Hoon%22&pg=PA1911 Duty, Honor, Victory: America's Athletes in World War II]'' by Gary L. Bloomfield, Globe Pequot, 2004, page 20.</ref> By the time he reached the ''Arizona'' the ship had already exploded and sunk.

After the sinking of ''Arizona'', Chung-Hoon served as a naval liaison officer with [[coastal artillery]] before becoming [[executive officer]] on a destroyer in 1942, working convoy details in the Atlantic.<ref name="Chung-Hoon 1945">"Chung-Hoon, Former Grid Great at Academy Still Winning Letters on Pacific Navy Team" by Laurie Johnston, The Honolulu Advertiser, 1945.</ref> He also served on board the cruiser {{USS|Honolulu|CL-48|6}}.<ref name="web.archive.org">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20030205072819/http://sjkids.scottsburg.com/Testimony%20to%20Chung-Hoon.htm TESTIMONIAL TO GORDAN PAEIA CHUNG-HOON, Captain USS SIGSBEE 14 May 1944 to 19 June 1945]" by John R. Williams, Signalman Second Class, USS Sigbee website, accessed 7/25/16.</ref>

From May 1944 to October 1945 Chung-Hoon commanded the destroyer {{USS|Sigsbee|DD-502|6}}. In the spring of 1945, ''Sigsbee'' assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening an [[aircraft carrier]] strike force off the [[Japan]]ese island of [[Kyūshū]]. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station off [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], a [[kamikaze]] crashed into ''Sigsbee'', reducing her [[starboard]] engine to {{convert|5|kn|lk=in|spell=in}} and knocking out the ship's [[Port (nautical)|port]] engine and steering control. Despite the damage, then [[Commander (United States)|Commander]] Chung-Hoon kept his antiaircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire" against the continuing Japanese air attack while simultaneously directing the damage control efforts that allowed ''Sigsbee'' to make port under her own power.<ref name="HA"/>

The damage had been severe enough that Admiral [[William Halsey, Jr.]] told Chung-Hoon to scuttle the ship. However, Chung-Hoon declined to do so, telling the admiral "No, I have kids on here that can't swim and I'm not putting them in the water. I'll take her back."<ref>"[http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Sep/16/ln/ln05a.html USS Chung-Hoon at home in Pearl Harbor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063325/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Sep/16/ln/ln05a.html# |date=2012-09-28 }}" by William Cole, The Honolulu Advertiser, September 16, 2004.</ref>

The next day Chung-Hoon led a [[burial at sea]] for the dead. One crewmate said of Chung-Hoon during the burial, "I often remember that the only man tough enough not to duck, was also the only man tender enough to cry."<ref name="web.archive.org"/>

For Chung-Hoon's service aboard ''Sigsbee'' he received the [[Navy Cross]] and the [[Silver Star]] for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism.<ref name="HA"/>

During the war, two of Chung-Hoon's brothers served in the army in the Pacific theater.<ref name="Chung-Hoon 1945"/>