WILLIAM B. GOGGINS, 87, RETIRED REAR ADMIRAL, DIES

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1986
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WASHINGTON POST
1 January 1966
OBITUARIES
William B. Goggins, 87,
retired Rear Admiral, Dies
William B. Goggins, 87, a retired
Navy rear admiral who commanded
a battleship in World War 11 and
whb later founded a computer and
cotbmunications company here,
died{ of cardiac arrest Dec. 27 at
Fairfax Hospital. He lived in Arling-
tof..
Early in the war, the future ad-
mi"cal was executive officer of the
light cruiser Marblehead in the Java
Se?. The ship sustained heavy dam-
age. in an action against the Japa-
nese on Feb. 4, 1942, and Adm.
Goggins was severely burned. He
and ether casualties were landed on
`aria while the Marblehead limped
!tome.
By the end of the month, Japa-
nese forces were going ashore on
Java, and the American sailors were
hidden until they escaped to Aus-
tralia aboard small craft. These ad-
ventures formed the basis of a book
by James Hilton and a movie, "The
Story of Dr. Wassell," which was
produced by Cecil B. DeMille.
From October 1942 to January
1945, Adm. Goggins served at Pa-
cific Fleet Headquarters at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii. as head of the radio
intelligence unit. He then took com-
mand of the battleship Alabama,
participating in actions at Okinawa
and against the Japanese home is-
lands.
His military decorations included
two Legions of Merit, the Purple
leart and a Navy Unit Commen-
dation, which was awarded to the
Marblehead.
His postwar assignments includ-
ed duty as commanding officer of
the Naval Administrative Command
of the Central Intelligence Group in
Washington, a forerunner of the
CIA. He was chief of staff to the
naval commandant of the Panama
Canal Zone when he retired in
1949. He was advanced to the rank
of rear admiral at that time.
Adm. Goggins later did research
at Johns Hopkins University and
was a staff consultant to the Army
Research Association. He also had
operated his own firm, the General
Kinetics Institute, a computer and
communications company.
Adm. Goggins, a resident of the
Washington area since 1949, was a
jtive of Republic, Wash. He at-
cuded the ''Java: Academy at An-
napolis, graduatin._: in 1919 with the
(lass of 1920. He also saw duty
board battleshi',, during World
'.liar I. He earned a master's degree
in electrical engineering at Yale
1 'nv'`r,:ty.
His wife of 59 nears. the former
'?.tta E! n, di^d in 1981. His sur-
vriors include a son, retired Air
Force Lt. Col. William B. Goggins
Jr. of Bedford, Mass.; a daughter,
Jane G. Ryan of Alexandria; a sis-
ter, Beatrice Taber of Tumwater,
Wash., and six grandchildren.
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