Chuck Myers, Board Member
Chuck Myers joined the Board of Trustees of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation as the representative of the museum volunteers in 2018 and was elected to the Board on May 1, 2023. He has been a museum docent for more than ten years and three-time chair of the Docent Council.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1960 with a BA in History before attending Navy officer’s candidate school in Newport, RI. He was commissioned Ensign in May 1961, attended US Naval Justice School and first served aboard USS Yorktown, Hornet’s sister ship. He also served at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. Following his time in the Navy, he joined what was then Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in 1966 and spent over 25 years with that company, principally in information systems. He retired as an Executive Director in 1992 and spent the next ten years consulting on telecommunication systems, mostly in Europe while living in The Hague. During his years in Europe, Chuck consulted with companies in The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Poland, the UK, Norway, Hong Kong, Australia, and Austria. He retired from KPMG as a senior consultant in 2003.
In 2018 Chuck resumed his consulting career, but in a new field, one directly resulting from his service on Yorktown and Hornet. He was selected as the aircraft carrier consultant for the Lionsgate movie, “Midway”, directed by Roland Emmerich, and spent nearly four
weeks on the sets in Montreal. In 2021 he was a consultant to a second Navy-themed movie, “Devotion”, produced by Black Label Media and directed by J.D. Dillard. The movie was filmed in Georgia and is based on the book of the same name by Adam Makos. His service on Hornet has also led to being an editor of two books, “U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939–45” by Ingo Bauernfeind. The second, “The Silver Waterfall”. a new take on the
Battle of Midway, written by Brendan Simms, a professor and Steven McGregor, a PhD student at Cambridge University.
Now an Alameda resident, Chuck was born in rural Nebraska and grew up all over the Midwest. He attended schools in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois and his parents lived in Michigan while he was in college in Minneapolis. He discovered that “Winter” meant something different while Yorktown was in Long Beach and stayed in California as a result. Chuck has four grown children, two in California, one in St. Louis and one in Las Vegas and three grandchildren.
