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George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 2008) was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of United States naval forces during the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors.
On April 23, Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. Naval forces on Guam, was ordered to "accept, shelter, process and care for refugees as they were removed from South Vietnam." [3]: 63 [4] More than 130,000 Vietnamese were evacuated from South Vietnam by air and sea during the last few days of April.
Admiral George Stephen Morrison, father of The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, flew his flag on Bon Homme Richard. Popular myth has it that he had some involvement in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964, as he was the commander of the US naval forces present. Actually, the aircraft carrier involved in the incident was the Ticonderoga. [4]
Captain George Stephen Morrison was in command of local American forces from his flagship USS Bon Homme Richard. Maddox was under orders not to approach closer than eight miles (13 km) from North Vietnam's coast and four miles (6 km) from Hon Nieu island. [ 29 ]
Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida, to Clara Virginia (née Clarke; 1919–2005) and Lt.(j.g.) George Stephen Morrison (1919–2008), a future rear admiral in the United States Navy. [15]
Admiral George Stephen Morrison, USN – father of The Doors' lead singer, Jim Morrison; Commander Alan G. Poindexter, USN – NASA astronaut and Navy test pilot; Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree, USN – made two Arctic expeditions, was the second acting governor of American Samoa, and served as commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet
Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall (Eliot) Morison (1857–1925).He was named for his maternal grandfather Samuel Eliot—a historian, educator, and public-minded citizen of Boston and Hartford, Connecticut.
Morrison joined the British Army as a gunner in 1722. [1] He was involved in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1745 and as a result was sent to Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as an Officer Cadet. [1] Morrison led the construction of a series of roads in Scotland on the orders of Field Marshal George Wade. [1]