Allen B. Reed
{{Short description|US Navy officer (1884–1965)}}
{{Infobox military person
|name= Allen B. Reed
|birth_date= {{Birth date|1884|4|3}}
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1965|2|28|1884|4|3}}
|birth_place= Liberty, Missouri, US
|death_place= Bethesda, Maryland, US
|placeofburial= Arlington National Cemetery
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
|image=Allen B. Reed, Sr., USN.jpg
|caption= Capt. Allen B. Reed, Sr.
|allegiance= {{flag|United States of America}}
|branch= 25px United States Navy
|serviceyears= 1904–1941 (37 Years)
|commands= USS Paragua
USS Iris
USS Susquehanna
{{USS| Florida|BB-30|6}}
{{USS|Worden|DD-288|6}}
{{USS|Converse|DD-291|6}}
Division 80 of Destroyer Squadron 11
Division 30 of Battle Fleet from {{USS|McCawley|DD-276|6}}
Division 45 of Battle Fleet from {{USS|Preble|DD-345|6}}
USS New Orleans
|unit=
| battles = Philippines- Moro Rebellion
First Nicaraguan Campaign
Mexican Revolution
World War I
| awards = 35 px Navy Cross
}}
Captain Allen Bevins Reed (April 3, 1884 – February 28, 1965){{cite web | url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/ | title=ANC Explorer | website=Arlington National Cemetery | access-date=December 3, 2016 | quote=Reed, Allen B; Birth Date: 04/03/1884; Death Date: 02/28/1965; Interment Date: 03/03/1965; Branch of Service: US NAVY; Section: 35; Grave: 736 | archive-date=August 5, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805214443/https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/ | url-status=live }} was a U.S. Naval officer whose career began aboard vessels in the Asiatic and Pacific Fleets. Early in his career he was Captain Takeshita Isamu's escort during a ceremonial visit to the mayor of San Francisco, and he was a member of a Naval Board of Inquiry. Reed assumed the command of a landing force of 120 men in Nicaragua in 1912, to protect a railway line following a coup d'état attempt by General Luis Mena.
Over his career, Reed commanded eight ships, and after he was made captain, he was commander of Division 80 of Destroyer Squadron 11, Division 30 of Battle Fleet from the flagship {{USS|McCawley|DD-276|6}}, and Division 45 of the Battle Fleet from {{USS|Preble|DD-345|6}}. Reed received the Navy Cross for his command of the {{USS|Susquehanna|ID-3016|6}} during dangerous transatlantic voyages of World War I. Reed was the plank owner commanding officer of the newly commissioned heavy cruiser {{USS|New Orleans|CA-32|6}}, and in the summer of 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took a cruise on the ship through the Panama Canal and the Pacific Ocean.
In the latter years of his naval career, Reed was attached to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations where his assignments included Director of Fleet Maintenance Division. He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Army and Navy Munitions Board and served on the Joint Economy Board between the Army and Navy.
He retired in 1939, but remain on active duty at the beginning of World War II. He was head of the United States Maritime Commission and was the navy liaison to the Office of Production Management, which later became the War Production Board.
Naval Academy
Reed entered the United States Naval Academy (USNA) on September 22, 1900, as one of 93 fourth class naval cadets.{{cite book|title=Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty|url=https://archive.org/details/registercommiss02deptgoog|year=1900|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/registercommiss02deptgoog/page/n98 86]}} On July 1, 1902, the Academy changed the title of "naval cadet" to "midshipman".{{cite web | url=http://www.usna.edu/admissions/history/1900.htm |website=U.S. Naval Academy | title=A Brief History of the United States Naval Academy | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924193301/http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/history/1900.htm | archive-date=September 24, 2012 }} He was on the track, gymnastics and football teams there. Reed's fellow graduates of the class of 1904 included future Admiral William S. "Bull" Halsey, Jr.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/luckybag1904unse#page/40/mode/2up/search/Reed | title=Lucky Bag | chapter=First Class Petty Officers|volume=XI | publisher=United States Naval Academy | year=1904 | access-date=December 2, 2016 | page=41 }}{{cite book|last=Wukovits|first=John|title=Admiral "Bull Halsey"|year=2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-60284-7|page=9}} Completing his academic studies, Reed received his warrant as a passed midshipman. On January 25, 1904, he was detached from Annapolis "to home and ready for sea".{{citation | publisher=National Archives and Records Administration | title=Transcript of Service of Allen Bevins Reed, Commander (T) USN | date=March 20, 1920 }}
Naval service
=Early career=
On March 21, 1904, Reed reported for duty aboard the school ship USS Mohican{{cite book|title=Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty|url=https://archive.org/details/registercommiss14deptgoog|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/registercommiss14deptgoog/page/n54 48]}} and was then on several vessels of the Asiatic and Pacific Fleets for more than four years. During that time he was commissioned an ensign,{{efn|He was a passed midshipman in 1905 on the gunboat, {{USS|Paragua|1888|6}}{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/registercommiss20deptgoog#page/n50/mode/1up | title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and Marine Corps|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | date= January 1906 | page= 42 }} of the Asiatic Fleet.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/registercommiss20deptgoog#page/n195/mode/1up | title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and Marine Corps | date=January 1906 | page=188 }}{{cite book|author=U.S. Navy|title=Annual Reports of the Navy Department of the Year 1905|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2A7AQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA388|year=1906|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=388}} Ensign Reed was on the protected cruiser {{USS|Baltimore|C-3|6}}, cruising Asiatic, Philippine and Australian waters through April 1907.{{cite news | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/27/106750184.pdf |website=New York Times | title=Baltimore Home from Far Off Seas | date=April 27, 1907 }}{{cite book | url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036626235;view=image;seq=470;num=200;q1=%22allen%20b.%20reed%22;start=1;size=10;page=search | title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and Marine Corps | date= January 1907 | page=200 }} By mid-June 1907, Reed was assigned to the protected cruiser {{USS|Charleston|C-22|6}} of the Pacific Fleet Second Squadron Third Division.{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1907-06-12/ed-1/seq-8/;words=A+Reed+B+Ensign?date1=1907&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1908&proxtext=Ensign+A.+B.+Reed&y=4&x=8&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=1| title=Naval Orders | newspaper=The Times-Dispatch | location= Richmond, VA | date= June 12, 1907 }}{{cite book|last=Personnel|first=United States. Bureau of Naval|title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsYcAQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA205+|date=January 1908|page=205}}}} which then required successful completion of two years sea duty.{{cite journal|journal=Army and Navy Life and the United Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA150|volume=XII|date=February 1908|publisher=Army and Navy Press|page=150|title=Passed Midshipmen|number=2}} Reed was a lieutenant and senior engineer on the {{USS|Albany|CL-23|6}} by October 13, 1909, when he was Imperial Japanese Navy Captain Takeshita Isamu's escort during a ceremonial visit to the mayor of San Francisco.{{efn|Takeshita Isamu was commander of the Idzumo. The ceremonial visit occurred in concert with The Portola Festival{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1909-10-13/ed-1/seq-16/;words=Reed?date1=1908&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1909&proxtext=REED&y=6&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=12|title=Nippon Captain Calls on Mayor | newspaper=The San Francisco Call | page=16 | date=October 13, 1909 }} on October 19, 1909, that was attended by captains of warships from Holland, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy.{{cite book|title=Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJAmAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA12|chapter=The Portola Festival|year=1909|volume=3|page=12}}}}
He was stationed at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1910,{{cite book|author=United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel|title=General Register of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJNaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244|chapter=Navy Yards and Shore Stations – Naval Station, Mare Island, California|year=1911|pages=244–245}} and in April 1911 Reed became a member of the Naval Board of Inquiry that convened to investigate fraud involving naval Paymaster Arthur M. Pippin and two others.{{cite web | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1911-05-03/ed-1/seq-9/| title=Army & Navy | newspaper=The Hawaiian Star | date= May 3, 1911 | page=1 | via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress }}{{cite news| url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1911-04-25/ed-1/seq-5/ |title=Pippin's Accounts Examined Again | newspaper=The San Francisco Call | date=April 25, 1911 |page=5 | via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress }} The men were court-martialed and sentenced to hard labor at San Quentin State Prison.{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1911-11-04/ed-1/seq-10/ |title=Convicted Naval Officers Get Heavy Penalties | newspaper=The New York Daily Tribune | date= November 4, 1911 | page=10, column 1 | via= Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress}}
File:USS Denver Nicaragua Landing Force 1912.jpg
Reed was an executive officer on {{USS|Denver|CL-16|6}}{{efn|He was assigned to the protected cruiser, {{USS|Denver|CL-16|6}}, by June 26, 1912,{{ cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1912-06-26/ed-1/seq-8/;words=Mare+Denver+Island?date1=1912&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1912&proxtext=denver+mare+island&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=11|title=Army and Navy Orders| newspaper=The Washington Times | date= June 26, 1912 | page=8}} and he became a navigator of the vessel that year.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1YuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA31 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and Marine Corps | chapter=Navy and Marine Corps Directory | date=January 1913 | pages=31, 62 }}}} when he was given command of a landing force of 120 men who landed at Corinto, Nicaragua on August 29, 1912. This followed a coup d'état attempt by General Luis Mena, Minister of War to overthrow President Adolfo Díaz and the Denver was one of six ships brought in to provide troops to protect the railway line from Corinto to Managua.{{cite book|last=Langley|first=Lester D.|title=The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQV4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|date=November 1, 2001|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-7425-7115-0|page=65}}{{efn|This landing party reembarked aboard ship October 24 and 25, 1912.{{cite web | url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/l/list-of-expeditions-1901-1929.html | title=List of Expeditions 1901–1929 |website=Navy Department Library, Navy History & Heritage Command|access-date=December 7, 2016 }} Officers and enlisted men who participated in the landing at Nicaragua between July 29, 1912, and November 14, 1912, including those on {{USS|Denver|CL-16|6}}, received the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal.{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060815162114/http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/nicar.htm | title=Nicaraguan Campaign Medal | url=http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/nicar.htm | archive-date=August 15, 2006 | access-date=December 6, 2016 }}}}
=Mexico and Panama Canal=
By May 26, 1913, Reed was next on the Torpedo Flotilla tender {{USS|Iris|1885|6}}, as executive officer and navigator,{{cite web | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1913-05-26/ed-1/seq-12/ | title=Army & Navy | newspaper=The Washington Times | date=May 26, 1913 | page=12 – column 1 | via= Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress }}{{ cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ih8PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA256137 |chapter=Stations | title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and Marine Corps | date=January 1914 | page= 256}} and he came to command it into June 1915.{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014682/1915-07-10/ed-1/seq-11/ |title=Many Changes are Scheduled in Canal Zone | newspaper=Honolulu Star Bulletin | date=July 10, 1915 |page=11 – top, 5th column | via= Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress}} Iris along with five torpedo boats from the Pacific Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, were ordered to the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez following the Tampico Affair by May 4, 1914.{{cite web |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1914-05-04/ed-1/seq-2/1 |title=71 U.S. Warships surround Mexico |work=El Paso Herald |date=May 4, 1914 |access-date=October 14, 2012|page=2 – top, 3rd column | via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress}} They patrolled the vicinity of La Paz and Mazatlán, Mexico, during the ongoing civil unrest there.{{cite web |url= http://www.snohomishhistory.com/msvlglobe14may.html |title=A letter from Old Mexico |work=Marysville Globe |date=May 15, 1914 |access-date=October 14, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1914-05-18/ed-1/seq-12/ |newspaper=The Ogden Standard|title=Americans are put to death | date=May 18, 1914 | page=12 – column 2, bottom | via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress |access-date=December 8, 2016 }} During May and June 1914, Iris evacuated American citizen refugees from Mazatlan and Acapulco, including the American consul, Hon. Clement S. Edwards.{{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1914-06-20/ed-1/seq-2/;words=Mazatlan+Iris?date1=1912&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1915&proxtext=Iris+mazatlan&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=3 |title=Movement of Vessels |work=The Washington Times |date=June 20, 1914 |page=2 |access-date=October 14, 2012}}
He was made Captain of the Port at Balboa, Panama by June 11, 1915.{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1915-06-11/ed-1/seq-6/ | title=Army & Navy | newspaper=The Washington Times | date= June 11, 1915 | page=6 – top, 3rd column | via= Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress}}{{efn|He replaced Commander Henry V. Butler and remained Captain of the Port at least through 1916.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMkcAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA334 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and Marine Corps | chapter=Navy Yards and Short Stations – Panama Canal | date=January 1917 | page=334 }}}}
=World War I=
File:USS Susquehanna (ID-3016).jpg
About December 26, 1917, President Wilson approved an Act of Congress that temporarily promoted a total of 188 officers to rear admirals, captains, and commanders. Reed was one of the group of men temporarily promoted to commander during World War I.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkjmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 | chapter=12 to Be Temporary Rear Admirals, 51 Captains, and 125 Commanders by Approval of President Wilson
| title=The Official U.S. Bulletin | date=December 26, 1917 | page=7 }} He was awarded the Navy Cross in 1920 "for distinguished service in the line of his profession as commanding officer of the {{USS|Susquehanna|ID-3016|6}}, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies to European ports through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines."{{cite web | url=http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=9961 |title=Allen Bevins Reed | website=Military Times Hall of Valor, Navy Cross Recipients | access-date=December 7, 2016 }}
=Between the two world wars=
Reed was Commander of the battleship {{USS| Florida|BB-30|6}} from March 1923{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19231unit#page/n145/mode/2up/search/Florida| title=Navy directory : officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=145 | date=March 1, 1923 }}{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19233unit#page/n147/mode/2up/search/Reed| title=Navy directory : officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=147 | date=July 1, 1923 }} to May 1924,{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19243unit#page/140/mode/2up/search/Reed | title=Navy directory : officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=141 | date=May 1, 1924 }} He was commander of the Clemson-class destroyer {{USS|Worden|DD-288|6}} by July,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19244unit#page/166/mode/2up |title=Directory of Naval Officers | date=July 1, 1924 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=167}}{{cite web | url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/worden-ii.html|title=Worden II (Destroyer No. 288) | website=Naval History and Heritage Command|access-date=December 8, 2016 }} and by November, he was commanding the {{USS|Converse|DD-291|6}}.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1924unit_3#page/144/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=November 1, 1924 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=144 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }}
By July 1925, Reed was at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19254unit#page/188/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=July 1, 1925 |publisher=United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States. Marine Corps | page=189 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} in the Senior Class of 1926.{{cite web | url=https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/de2da848-af41-42d1-b715-adb3dfdbb834/NWC-Students---Faculty1884to1979.aspx | title=The United States Naval War College – Register of Officers | website=The United States Naval War College, Department of the Navy | access-date=December 8, 2016 | page=38 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223120120/https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/de2da848-af41-42d1-b715-adb3dfdbb834/NWC-Students---Faculty1884to1979.aspx | archive-date=December 23, 2016 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }} After World War I, the college was led by Admiral William S. Sims, who promoted innovative thinking. Sims was commander of the Naval Forces in Europe during the war.{{cite web | url=https://www.usnwc.edu/About/History.aspx|title=History|website=The United States Naval War College|access-date=December 8, 2016 }}
He was assigned to the Ships' Movement Division of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D.C., by July 1926{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1926unit_1#page/190/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=July 1, 1926 |publisher=United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States. Marine Corps | page=190 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} and was there through at least January 1, 1928.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1927unit_1#page/192/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=July 1, 1927 |publisher=United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States. Marine Corps | page=193 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff1928unit#page/192/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=January 1, 1928 |publisher=United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States. Marine Corps | page=193 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} During that time, Reed was promoted to captain on March 16, 1927.{{cite book|title=Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXNNAQAAMAAJ|year=1927|publisher=Order of the Senate of the United States|page=16}} In August 1928, he commanded Division 80 of Destroyer Squadron 11, reporting to Lewis B. Porterfield.{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/95925942/ | title=Personnel of Officers | newspaper=Oakland Tribune | location=Oakland, California | date=August 24, 1928 |page=30|access-date=December 8, 2016 | via=www.newspapers.com }} By April 1929, he was commander of Division 30 of Battle Fleet from the flagship {{USS|McCawley|DD-276}}.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1929unit_0#page/162/mode/2up/search/Reed|title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=April 1, 1929 |publisher=United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States. Marine Corps | page=162 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} In January 1930, he was commander of Division 45 of Battle Fleet from the flagship {{USS|Preble|DD-345|6}}.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19301unit#page/n179/mode/2up/search/Reed|title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=January 1, 1930 |publisher=United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States. Marine Corps | page=162 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} He was then at the Material Division of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1930 to 1932.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19303unit#page/198/mode/2up/search/Reed|title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=July 1, 1930 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=199 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1931unit_1#page/196/mode/2up|title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=July 1, 1931 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=196, 195 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19323unit#page/200/mode/2up/search/Reed|title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=July 1, 1932 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | page=200 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }}
Reed assumed command of a new cruiser, USS New Orleans, at New York Navy Yard in February 1934.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/16210873/ | title=Captain Reed Assumes Command of New Cruiser at New York Navy Yard | newspaper=Newport Mercury | date=February 23, 1934 | location=Newport, Rhode Island | page=8 |access-date=December 8, 2016}} Among New Orlean{{'s}} junior officers under Captain Reed's command in 1934 were Ensign E.L. Jahncke, Jr. and Ensign T.H. Moorer.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19342unit#page/182/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=October 1, 1934 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=183|access-date=December 10, 2016 }} Jahncke was the son of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Moorer rose to the rank of admiral and served as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1967 to 1970 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
USS New Orleans made a shakedown Transatlantic crossing to Northern Europe and Scandinavia in May and June 1934.{{cite web | url=http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/CA-32.html|title= USS New Orleans CA-32 | website=Pacific Wrecks | access-date=December 8, 2016}} President Franklin D. Roosevelt took a cruise beginning July 5 on the ship, which went through the Panama Canal, had an exercise off of the California coast with {{USS|Macon|ZRS-5|6}}, and ended at Astoria, Oregon, on August 2, 1934. The New Orleans then went through the Panama Canal to Cuba, and then exercised off of the New England coast. It made its first visit to the port of New Orleans in the spring of 1935. On March 30, 1935, Louisiana Governor Oscar K. Allen presented Reed and the ship with the silver services from the former battleship {{USS|Louisiana|BB-19|6}} and the former cruiser {{USS|New Orleans|CL-22|6}}, and named Reed an honorary citizen of the city.{{cite news |title=New Cruiser Presented Cotly Silver Services |newspaper=The Sunday News and Tribune |location=Jefferson City, Missouri |date=March 31, 1935 |page=6 |access-date=October 25, 2016 |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7176732//}}{{efn|Reed's home town of Liberty, Missouri, named March 30, 1935 "Captain Reed Day" in his honor.{{cite news |title=Navy Captain Honored |newspaper=The Amarillo Globe-Times |location=Amarillo, Texas |date=March 26, 1935|page=9 |access-date=October 25, 2016 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7176693/navy_captain_honored_the_armarillo/}}}} It was still under his command in April 1935.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1935unit_0#page/n1/mode/2up |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=April 1, 1935 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=180|access-date=December 9, 2016 }}
He was Director of Fleet Maintenance Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from October 1935{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1935unit_1#page/216/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=October 1, 1935 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=217|access-date=December 9, 2016 }} to 1939.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff1939unit#page/250/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps| date= January 1, 1939 | page=250}}{{efn|He was Director of Fleet Maintenance Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations through the intervening years of 1936,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff19361unit#page/234/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=January 1, 1936 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=235 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} 1937,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1937unit_0#page/232/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=April 1, 1937 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=233, 231 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} and 1938.{{cite book | chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/officialregister38unit#page/54/mode/2up |title=Official Register of the United States | chapter=Navy Department | year= 1938 | page=55}}}} In 1937, Reed also served on the Joint Economy Board between the Army and Navy{{cite book | chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/officialregister1937unit#page/154/mode/2up |title=Official Register of the United States | year=1937 |chapter=The Joint Economy Board| page=155 }} and was the appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Army and Navy Munitions Board.{{cite book | url=http://tothosewhoserved.org/usa/ts/usatsc01/chapter02.html#fn41 | title=The Chemical Warfare Service: Organizing for War | first1=Leo P. | last1=Brophy | first2=George J. B. | last2=Fisher | publisher=Center Of Military History, United States Army | location=Washington, D.C. | year=1959 }}
=World War II=
He retired by October 1, 1939, but he remained on active duty during the initial years of World War II. He was head of the United States Maritime Commission in the second half of 1939 and in 1940.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryof1939unit_0#page/276/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=October 1, 1939 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=276 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff1940unit#page/268/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=June 1, 1940 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=269 |access-date=December 9, 2016 }} Reed was a liaison to the Office of Production Management in Washington, D.C.,{{cite web| url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oem2002000295/PP/ | title=Captain A.B. Reed, U.S. Navy (Retired), liaison officer, Navy, and Office of Production Management (OPM) | website=Library of Congress | access-date=December 7, 2016 }} which with the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board later became the War Production Board.{{cite book|last= Herman|first= Arthur|author-link= Arthur L. Herman|date= 2012|title= Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II|url= https://archive.org/details/freedomsforgehow00herm/page/164|location= New York|publisher= Random House|isbn= 978-1-4000-6964-4|pages= [https://archive.org/details/freedomsforgehow00herm/page/164 164–165]|url-access= registration}}{{cite web | url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16297 | title=Franklin D. Roosevelt – Executive Order 9024 Establishing the War Production Board |website=The American Presidency Project | access-date=December 8, 2016 }} He was an advisor to the Council of National Defense in 1941,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/navydirectoryoff11941unit#page/166/mode/2up/search/Reed |title=Navy Directory – Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | date=April 1, 1941 |publisher=United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation; United States Marine Corps | pages=167 |access-date=December 10, 2016 }} which was a World War I organization that was reactivated for World War II and operated in 1940 and 1941.{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/062.html | title=Records of the Council of National Defense | date=August 15, 2016 | website=National Archives|access-date=December 10, 2016 }}
On September 6, 1944, his wife, Bess M. Reed, sponsored the {{USS|Torsk|}} at its launch from the Portsmouth (Maine) Navy Yard.{{cite web | url=http://www.usstorsk.org/photoalbum/44launch/tpic441.htm | title=Launch | website=USS Torsk.org | access-date=December 7, 2016 }}
Personal life
Reed was from Liberty, Missouri.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/luckybag1904unse#page/18/mode/2up/search/Reed | title=Lucky Bag | chapter=First Class Petty Officers|volume=XI | publisher=United States Naval Academy | year=1904 | access-date=December 2, 2016 | page=19 }} He graduated from Liberty High School in 1900.{{cite news | title=Home town in on Fete | newspaper=Kansas City Star | location=Kansas City, Missouri | date=March 25, 1935 | page=2 }}
Lieutenant Reed married the Bessie Moorhead of Omaha, Nebraska, on September 25, 1909, at the home of her parents in Omaha, Nebraska.{{cite news | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1909-10-08/ed-1/seq-6/ |title=The Smart Set | newspaper=The San Francisco Call | date= October 8, 1909 |via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress | page=6, bottom of last column}} Their son, Allen B. Reed, Jr. was born on June 11, 1912. He was also a captain in the Navy. In 1914, the Reeds lived in San Diego, California, where their daughter,{{cite web | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1914-08-26/ed-1/seq-6/ |title=Personal Mention | newspaper=Omaha Daily Bee | date= August 26, 1914 |via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress | page=6, bottom of column 1}} Annis was born. They had two other daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine.{{cite web | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/01/20/john-t-flippen-dies/77703c8d-f985-487b-a60b-2d1e504069ab/ | title=John T. Flippen Dies – Annis Reed Burroughs | date=January 20, 1993 | website=Washington Post | access-date=December 2, 2016 }}
He died February 28, 1965, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Bessie, died on September 27, 1966, and is buried with him at Arlington.{{cite web | url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/ | title=ANC Explorer | website=Arlington National Cemetery | access-date=December 3, 2016 | quote=Reed, Bessie M; Birth Date: 12/21/1883; Death Date: 09/23/1966; Interment Date: 09/27/1966; Branch of Service: Unknown; Section: 35; Grave: 736 | archive-date=August 5, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805214443/https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/ | url-status=live }} Allen B. Reed, Jr. is also buried at Arlington. He died September 2, 1996.{{cite web | url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/ | title=ANC Explorer | website=Arlington National Cemetery | access-date=December 3, 2016 | quote=Reed, Allen B, Jr; Birth Date: 06/11/1912; Death Date: 09/02/1996; Interment Date: 11/08/1996; Branch of Service: Unknown (grave stone says Navy); Court 4; Section T; Column 6; Niche 3 | archive-date=August 5, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805214443/https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/ | url-status=live }}
Date of ranks
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Decorations and awards
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|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Navy Cross ribbon.svg|width=106}} |{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Philippine Campaign Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}} |{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Nicaraguan Campaign ribbon 1912.svg|width=106}} |
| {{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Mexican Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=service-star|ribbon=World War I Victory Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}} |{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=American Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}} |
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| Navy Cross |
| Mexican Service Medal
|World War I Victory Medal with "Transport" clasp |
Gallery
File:US Naval Academy Gymnastics Team 1904.jpg|USNA Gymnastics Team, 1904. A.B. Reed, seated, second from right; H.E. Kimmel, seated, second from left
File:USNA First Class Cadet Petty Officers 1904.jpg|USNA First Class Cadet Petty Officers, 1904. A.B. Reed, seated, front row, center{{cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/luckybag1904unse#page/18/mode/2up/search/Reed|title=Lucky Bag|chapter=First Class Petty Officers|volume=XI|publisher=United States Naval Academy|year=1904|access-date=December 2, 2016|page=19 }}
File:USN Midshipman Allen B. Reed.jpg|Midshipman Allen B. Reed in 1904
Notes
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