He took command of the destroyer escort USS William Seiverling when she was commissioned on 1 June 1944.

The Seiverling conducted anti-submarine operations in the Pacific Theater, was under air attack off Okinawa and supported the liberation of the Philippines.

During his tenure, Raytheon grew from a manufacturer of transistors and vacuum tubes into a maker of missiles and military-oriented radar and communications systems.

His first marriage was to Margaret Stockton by whom he had four children: Abigail, Alison, Charles V, and Timothy.

He had a total of nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren at the time of his death,[4] on January 5, 1999, in Dover, Massachusetts, aged 88.