1. In early 1918 Vice Admiral Kantaro Suzuki brought his two cruisers Asama and Iwate to San Francisco and "banqueted" with Rear Admiral William Fullam after receiving harbor entrance by Rear Admiral William Fullam.
10 Facts About William Fullam
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William Fullam's communicating in personal letters to many of his fellow senior officers were forceful and were written with a freedom of expression- all wishing to prepare their units for the coming World War.
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Rear Admiral William Fullam retired on Monday, October 20,1919.
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Rear Admiral William Fullam was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Army and Navy Club, Navy League of the United States, and the United States Naval Academy alumni.
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Rear Admiral William Fullam closely followed the progress and reports coming out of the Washington Naval Conference.
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William Fullam praised the Conference for modernizing naval thought, and having decreed the scrapping of 66 battleships and a holiday of ten years in battleship building.
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William Fullam strongly supported bringing the battleship into a lesser fleet role, allowing for increased procurement and utilization of submarines, aeroplane carriers and aeroplanes as offensive weapons- what he referred to as our "Three-Plane-Navy".
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William F Fullam was a direct descendant of American Revolutionary War veteran Lieutenant Elisha Fullam II of Weston, Massachusetts.
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William Fullam was the son of Nathan Seymour Fullman and Rhoda Ann Stowits.
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Lieutenant Elisha William Fullam II assisted in establishing American Independence while acting as a platoon officer within Captain Jonathan Davis' Company of Colonel Asa Whitcomb's 5th Militia of the Massachusetts Line, 23rd Continental Regiment of Foot.