Worrall Reed Carter

Worrall Reed Carter (11 January 1885 – 21 July 1975) was an American naval officer during World War II. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School and Columbia University, his early career was in submarines. In World War I, he served on the staff of the commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, Rear Admiral William S. Sims, as an expert on submarine detection devices. During World War II, as commander of Service Squadron Ten, he was responsible for naval logistics in the Pacific Theater. After the war he wrote Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil (1953) about naval logistics in the Pacific, and co-wrote Ships, Salvage, and Sinews of War (1954), about naval logistics in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.