High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roy Alexander "Red" Gano was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself in World War II and the Korean War, and served as Commander Military Sea Transportation Service and as Executive Director for Ocean Transportation from 1961 to 1964. A native of Pipestone, Minnesota, Gano attended the United States Naval Academy and graduated in 1926. He returned to the Academy as a postgraduate student in 1934. He married Harriet Pauline Howard, July 18, 1929. Admiral and Mrs. Gano had 2 children, Myrtle Eugenia "Jeanne" Gano Steele born May 29, 1940 and deceased September 19, 2006, and James Alexander Gano born April 1, 1946 and deceased November 11, 2005.