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Admiral Mccormick, 81,
Dies; Navy College Heed

VASC 11AAiAAdA AyI1uc ~. MC-
Cormick. 81. president of the
Naval War College since 1854
and former supreme allied COM
mander Of the Atlantic Fleet,
died today at the Naval Hos
pital. Newport, R. l.. Of a heart
attack.
Admiral Mccormick was a
four-star admiral while he COM
manded the Atlantic Fleet and
while he was vice chief of naval
operations, but he reverted to
three stars when he went to the
War College at Newport. For a
short period after the death Of
Admiral Forrest p. Sherman
Admiral Mccormick was acting
Chief of Naval Operations.
Admiral Mccormick served as
a young officer aboard the Wyo-
ming in World War /. He wit
messed the surrender Of the Ger
man High Fleet in the North Sea
lat the end Of that conflict.
Afterwards he served on the
South Carolina, the Birming-
ham, the Buchanan and in 1921
he took command Of the Ken
nedy. Then he began submarine
duty and for almost three years
in the late l920s he commanded
the sub Va.
Assignments in 1895
He also commanded the
Neches in 1886. and before the
outbreak of World War II he
was operations officer on the
staff of commander, Battleships,
Battle Force, flagship West Vir-
ginia. He took over the same
post on the staff of the COM
mander of the Battle Force on
the flagship California.
At the time of the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral
Mccormick was assistant war
plans officer on the staff of the
Commander in Chief of the
Pacific Fleet.
In 1912. he was appointed war
plans officer for Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz and served in that
capacity during the battles of
the Coral Sea, Midway and
Guadalcanal. BY July of that
year he was a rear admiral.
The Annapolis Md native,
whose father was Rear Admiral
Albert Montgomery Dupuy Nc
Cormick, received the Legion Of
Merit for his services as war
plans officer.
At Yalta, Quebec
Admiral Mccormick came to
Washington in 1943 as Assistant
Chief of Naval Operations for
LogiStics Plans and at the same
time he became chairman of the
Joint Logistics Committee of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. He ac-
companied Admiral King to the
second Quebec and Yalta con-
ferenceS.
For his Washington duty he
received a Gold Star in lieu of
a second Legion of Merit, and a
Letter of Commentator for
brilliant leadership"
Admiral Mccormick COM
manded Battleship Division 8
and saw action as Task Group
Commander for two months at
the battle of Okinawa and got
another Gold Star for this
action.
He also took part in the &C.
cupation of Japan. In l945 he
was ordered to duty as Chief of
Staff and aide to Admiral John
H. Towers, commander in chief
Iof the Pacific Fleet and Ocean
Areas.
Admiral Mccormick was
named Deputy Commander in
Chief of the Pacific Fleet and
Pacific Ocean Areas in 1916.
Then he was a member of a top
level staff of a joint command in
the Central Pacific to co-ordi-
nate Central Pacific defenSes.
From 1947 until l948 Admiral
Mccormick was commander of
the Battleships-Cruise of the
Atlantic Fleet and then he was
commandant of the 18th Naval
District in San Francisco.
Admiral Mccormick became
Vice Chief of Naval Operations
in 1850 and the following year
he was assigned as Commander