John Barry

ACH015: Commodore John Barry is known as the Father of the US Navy, its first commissioned officer, and first flag officer. Tom and Noelle Crowe trace his origins as an Irish Catholic immigrant to his distinguished career in the Revolutionary War to his appointment to head the fledgling post-war Navy.

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