Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Louis Vian, GCB, KBE, DSO and two bars, was a British naval officer who served in both World Wars. Vian specialised in naval gunnery from the end of World War I, and subsequently received several appointments as gunnery officer. In the early 1930s, he was given command of a destroyer, HMS Active, and, later, various destroyer flotillas.

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  • Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Louis Vian, GCB, KBE, DSO and two bars, was a British naval officer who served in both World Wars. Vian specialised in naval gunnery from the end of World War I, and subsequently received several appointments as gunnery officer. In the early 1930s, he was given command of a destroyer, HMS Active, and, later, various destroyer flotillas. During this phase of his career, in early 1940, he commanded a force that forcibly released captured British merchant sailors from the German supply ship Altmark in Jøssingfjord in, then neutral, Norway and, later, his flotilla took an active role in the final action of the German battleship Bismarck. Much of Vian's wartime service was in the Mediterranean, where he commanded a cruiser squadron, defended several critical convoys and led naval support at the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy. His wartime service was completed in command of the air component of the British Pacific Fleet, with successful actions against the Japanese in Sumatra and the western Pacific. Post-war, Vian served in the United Kingdom, as a Sea Lord and as Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet. He retired in 1952 with the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, took up commercial directorships and died at home, in 1968.
  • Sir Philip S. Vian GCB, KBE, DSO war ein britischer Flottenadmiral.
  • Si specializzò in artiglieria navale a partire dalla fine della Prima guerra mondiale, ricevendo riconoscimenti in questo campo. Nei primi anni trenta ebbe il comando di un cacciatorpediniere, l'Active ed in seguito comandò varie flottiglie di cacciatorpediniere. Durante questa fase della sua carriera, all'inizio del 1940 riuscì a liberare dei marinai inglesi tenuti prigionieri dalla nave appoggio tedesca Altmark a Jøssingfjord, nella ancora neutrale Norvegia. Più avanti nel corso della guerra la sua flottiglia di cacciatorpediniere ebbe un ruolo importante nell'ultima fase della Caccia alla Bismarck. Per la maggior parte del conflitto servì nel Mar Mediterraneo, dove comandò uno Squadrone di Incrociatori con compiti di scorta a fondamentali convogli di rifornimento diretti a Malta e successivamente in appoggio all'Operazione Husky e alla successiva conquista dell'Italia. Sul finire della guerra comandò la forza aerea della Flotta del Pacifico, raccogliendo diversi successi in azioni contro i giapponesi a Sumatra e nel Pacifico occidentale. Nel dopoguerra servì in patria come Lord del Mare e Comandante in Capo della Home Fleet. Andò in pensione nel 1952 con il grado di Ammiraglio della Flotta. Morì nel 1968.
  • Sir Philip S. Vian GCB, KBE, DSO był brytyjskim admirałem floty.
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Louis Vian, GCB, KBE, DSO and two bars, was a British naval officer who served in both World Wars. Vian specialised in naval gunnery from the end of World War I, and subsequently received several appointments as gunnery officer. In the early 1930s, he was given command of a destroyer, HMS Active, and, later, various destroyer flotillas.
  • Sir Philip S. Vian GCB, KBE, DSO war ein britischer Flottenadmiral.
  • Si specializzò in artiglieria navale a partire dalla fine della Prima guerra mondiale, ricevendo riconoscimenti in questo campo. Nei primi anni trenta ebbe il comando di un cacciatorpediniere, l'Active ed in seguito comandò varie flottiglie di cacciatorpediniere. Durante questa fase della sua carriera, all'inizio del 1940 riuscì a liberare dei marinai inglesi tenuti prigionieri dalla nave appoggio tedesca Altmark a Jøssingfjord, nella ancora neutrale Norvegia.
  • Sir Philip S. Vian GCB, KBE, DSO był brytyjskim admirałem floty.
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