Sir Philip Louis Vian Knight of the Order of the Bath , Knight of the Order of Outstanding Merit .
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 Admiral Philip Vian (2nd from left) aboard the Missouri battleship, 1945 | ||||||||||
| Date of Birth | July 15, 1894 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | London | |||||||||
| Date of death | May 27, 1968 ( 73) | |||||||||
| Place of death | Ashward Hill, Hampshire | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  Great Britain | |||||||||
| Type of army |  Navy of Great Britain | |||||||||
| Years of service | 1907 - 1952 | |||||||||
| Rank | fleet admiral | |||||||||
| Battles / Wars | World War I : Jutland battle World War II : Incident with Altmark , Danish-Norwegian operation , The sinking of Bismarck , Sicilian operation Landing in Italy , Operation Neptune , Battle for okinawa | |||||||||
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At the end of World War I, Vian attended artillery officer training courses and subsequently served as an artillery officer on the battle cruiser Australia , the battleship Thunderrer and others. In the early 1930s he was appointed commander of the destroyer Active , and later commanded several destroyer fleets.
In the spring of 1940, the destroyer " Cossack ", commanded by Vian, freed the captured British sailors held on board the German ship "Altmark" ; a year later, the flotilla commanded by Vian tried to torpedo the German battleship Bismarck the night before his death. Vian spent most of the war at the Mediterranean Theater , commanding a cruiser squadron, and at the end of the war, Vian was assigned command of the carrier force of the British Pacific Fleet. After the war, Vian was the Sea Lord of the Admiralty , commanded the fleet of the metropolis . In 1952 he retired with the rank of Fleet Admiral and further held the position of director in commercial firms.