射天狼
天弓 神箭
现在的资料显示 美海军只有4位 5星上将
其实 还有 迟至2001年，他身后多年才被追赠补授的一位原4星海军上将
即 下面这位
雷蒙德·艾姆斯·斯普鲁恩斯（Raymond Ames Spruance，1886年7月3日－1969年12月23日，或译为雷蒙德·史普劳恩斯），第二次世界大战时期美国海军将领（最终官阶为上将）、美国第五舰队司令。战后，曾出任美国海军战争学院院长及美国驻菲律宾大使。为纪念他立下的战功，斯普鲁恩斯级驱逐舰和该级首舰斯普鲁恩斯号（DD-963）皆以他的姓氏命名。
BILL
H.R.2492 — 107th Congress (2001-2002)
To authorize the President to posthumously advance the late Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance to the grade of Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy.
2001-7-12
Fleet Admiral (abbreviated FADM),[1] officially known as "Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy", is a five-star flag officer rank in the United States Navy. Fleet admiral ranks immediately above admiral and is equivalent to General of the Armyand General of the Air Force. There are currently no fleet admirals on active duty and no living officer of this rank; the last living United States Navy fleet admiral wasChester W. Nimitz who died in 1966.
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He was appointed as Ambassador to the Philippines by President Harry Truman, and served there from 1952 to 1955.
Spruance died in Pebble Beach, California on December 13, 1969 and was buried with full military honors. His wife, Margaret Dean (1888–1985), is buried alongside him, as are Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, his longtime friend Admiral Richmond K. Turner, and Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, an arrangement made by all of them while living.
Spruance's promotion to Fleet Admiral was blocked multiple times by Congressman Carl Vinson, a staunch partisan of Admiral William Halsey, Jr. Congress eventually responded by passing an unprecedented act which specified that Spruance would remain on a full admiral's pay once retired until death. Spruance was President of the Naval War College from February 1946 until he retired from the Navy in July 1948.
2001年7月12日，美国国会通过H.R.2492号法案，追授斯普鲁恩斯为五星上将。
但似乎 这只是个名义上的荣誉
一是他已经去世32年了，二是 他未被授予肩章领星和5-星将旗
Spruance's headstone at Golden Gate National Cemetery
1969年他死后 被葬于俯瞰旧金山海湾的金门国家军墓， 其夫人1985年去世后 也葬在其身旁
其老友 Turner 特訥将军 
1961年 去世，
Lockwood 劳克伍德将军 
1967年去世
海军5-星上将 Nimitz 尼米兹 
1966年去世
已经在那儿等他几年了
这几位老哥儿们 生前的约定: 死了也葬在一起！
老军人的情怀， 感人！
1945-09-02 日本东京湾 美国海军密苏里旗舰上 尼米兹代表美国签署 受日本降书
身后立着 麦克阿瑟（代表联军），豪尔希（代表美国海军）
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USS Nimitz CVAN-68 / CVN-68 尼米兹航母
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Admiral Spruance lived quietly at Pebble Beach until December 13, 1969, when he died of arteriosclerosis at the age of 83. He was survived by his wife and a daughter, Mrs. Gerald S. Bogart of Newport, R.I. His only son, Navy Captain Edward D. Spruance, who served for 30 years, was killed in a car accident in Marin County, Calif., in May 1969.
Admiral Spruance was buried with full honors alongside Admirals Nimitz and Kelly Turner in a military cemetery overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Navy honored Spruance by giving his name to a new class of 30 destroyers, the first of which, USSSpruance, was launched in 1973. An academic building at the Naval War College was also named for him.
http://www.navyhistory.org/fleet-admirals-us-navy/ ----- 美海军5星上将简介， 史普劳恩斯，不在其列。
Nimitz's headstone at Golden Gate National Cemetery.
二战后，斯普鲁恩斯几次被提报由4-星晋升到5-星上将，但都被国会， 主要是众院 海军事务委员会 Naval Affairs Committee 主席 卡尔-文森否决。文森是5星海军上将 豪尔希 Halsey 的铁杆支持者。（豪尔希早已是5-星上将了，未闻豪尔希不同意晋升 斯普鲁恩斯 到5-星。）有说是 海军5-星上将名额有限， 不对，够资格的当升，没有名额限制。至于为何 卡尔-文森 压抑 斯普鲁恩斯 的晋升，不详。
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卡尔-文森
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was a United States Representativefrom Georgia. He was a Democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Georgia.
Carl Vinson became a Representative at age 30. He served until age 81. 从30岁到81岁 担任美众议院议员51年 ！
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At the end of the war, Congress had authorized four Naval four-star officers to be promoted to Fleet Admiral. A staunch partisan of Admiral William Halsey, Jr., Vinson blocked the nomination of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, thought to be more deserving by the majority, multiple times to ensure that Halsey got the fourth billet. Congress eventually responded by passing an unprecedented act which specified that Spruance would remain on a full admiral's pay once retired until death.
Following World War II, the House Naval Affairs Committee was merged with the Military Affairs Committee to become the House Armed Services Committee (this consolidation mirrored the creation of the Department of Defense when the old Departments of War and of the Navy were consolidated).
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In recognition of his efforts on behalf of the U.S. Navy, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was named the USS Carl Vinson, an honorrarely given to a person while living. On March 15, 1980, at age 96, he attended the ship's launching.
Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain, is also named after him, together with the related Mount Vinson and Vinson Plateau.
Carl Vinson served 26 consecutive terms in the U.S. House, rarely running against significant opposition. He served for 50 years and one month, a record that stood until 1992, when the mark was surpassed by Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi.
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