Admiral Akers School
Admiral Akers School
Franklin & Constellation Ave'
NAS Lemoore, CA
559-998-5707
Admiral Akers School is located in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley on the Lemoore Naval Air Station near Lemoore, California. The school was built in 1963 to educate the children of military families. Akers is located half-way between San Francisco and Los Angeles and half-way between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Surrounding Lemoore Naval Air Station are acres of agricultural land. The town of Lemoore (population 18,500) is seven miles from Akers School.
Our school mascot is an eagle. When the school was founded, Admiral Akers, for whom the school is named, was the oldest active duty Navy pilot. He was called the Gray Eagle.
Our school colors are red, black, and gray.
Our school motto is "Every Student Succeeding."
We are California Distinguished School and a National "Blue Ribbon" School. Akers has won each award two times.
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Rear Admiral Frank Akers
Admiral Akers School was named after Rear Admiral Frank Akers. Rear Admiral Akers was commissioned an Ensign in the Class of 1922. He was assigned to the USS Sumner which operated in the Pacific Ocean. The following year, as the Engineering Officer of this destroyer, he won the "E" for Engineering Excellence and was commended by the Secretary of the Navy.
On September 11, 1925, he received the Navy "Wings of Gold". As a naval aviator, he was ordered to an aircraft squadron with the Battle Fleet. In 1928, he returned to Pensacola, Florida, as Instructor in Command of all Fighter Training.
In 1931, Lieutenant Frank Akers, was a student of electronics at the Postgraduate School in Annapolis, Maryland. He continued studying at Harvard Graduate School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was here that he received his Master of Science Degree in Electronic Communications in 1933.
As Flight Test Officer and Project Officer for Instrument Flying Development at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, Lieutenant Akers participated in an unusually hazardous experiment on July 30, 1935. He was told that the nation's first aircraft carrier, the USS Langley, was somewhere at sea approximately 150 miles away. It was his job to locate the carrier and land aboard it using only instruments. The aircraft was fitted with a special hood preventing visual contact with the outside world. He chalked up another Navy "first" when the plane touched down on the carrier deck and caught the Number 4 arresting wire. This was a feat that earned him the distinguished Flying Cross.
During 1942, he served as Navigator of the USS Hornet. He participated in the famed Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and the Battle of the Midway. Later, back in Washington as head of the Radio and Electrical Branch of the Bureau of Aeronautics, he received the Legion of Merit for his part in developing more efficient and simplified aircraft electronic systems, including radar bombing.
As Commanding Officer of the USS Saratoga in 1945-1946, he amassed a new world's record - 642 carrier landing in a single day. Upon completion of the Pacific War, the Saratoga returned more men to the United States than any other ship.
In keeping with the unique and varied career of Rear Admiral Akers, he has commanded aircraft carrier divisions in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. He is the only aviator ever to have been assigned as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Undersea Warfare. In addition, he commanded the Naval Air Technical Training Command in Memphis, Tennessee, and served as senior Naval Member of the Weapons System Evaluations Board in the Pentagon.
On January 11, 1962, at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California, Rear Admiral Akers was presented the Gray Eagle Trophy honoring him as the Naval Aviator who has been flying longer than any other on active duty. Rear Admiral Akers' son had an excellent quote about his father: "His life was built on the pursuit of excellence, coupled with a fierce determination to be the very best at anything, big or small. He was always a fine gentlemen who respected others."
It is a great pleasure to have Akers School named after Rear Admiral Akers. We will continue the long history of excellence.
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