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1925 Graduate of U.S. Naval Academy and was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Data source is Jane Weidman, 6009 Queenston, Springfield VA 22152
Data source is Susan Dorsey Webb, 2609 Wildwood Road, Salem VA 24153
Data source is Morton C. Mumma, III [Deceased]
MUMMA, MORTON CLAIRE JR
K/ADM U.S.N.
DATE OF BIRTH: 08/24/1904
DATE OF DEATH: 08/14/1968
BURIED AT: SECTION 3 SITE 4222-9
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Some of Morton's naval activities during WWII are detailed in a book called
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"At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy?"
by Robert Johns Bulkley - World War, 1939-1945 - 1962
It has been reprinted as
At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy
By Robert J. Bulkley, John F. Kennedy, Ernest McNeill Eller
Contributor John F. Kennedy, Ernest McNeill Eller
Edition: illustrated
Published by Naval Institute Press, 2003
ISBN 1591140951, 9781591140955
574 pages
Rear Admiral Morton Claire Mumma, Jr. (24 August 1904 – 14 August 1968) was a senior officer in the United States Navy. He was awarded the Navy Cross on 13 December 1941 during World War II, while commanding USS Sailfish (SS-192). He later served as naval aide to Secretary James Forrestal in 1944–45, and retired in 1946. Mumma was president of the National Rifle Association from 1955 to 1957, and at his death was on the association's executive council.[1]