Korean WarVietnam War 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.

[2] Accordingly, Morrison said that his family was originally from the Outer Hebrides, and claimed direct descent from Robert the Bruce.

[6] Morrison began flight training in 1943 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, and graduated in spring 1944, and went on to fly combat missions in the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

[9][10][11][12][13] Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for the carrier Bon Homme Richard, his first ship as an admiral, on July 2, 1971, in Washington D.C. His estranged son, rock musician Jim Morrison, died in Paris at age 27 the following day.

[5] A daughter, Anne Robin Morrison, was born in 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and became a school teacher in Thousand Oaks, California,[15] and a son, Andrew Lee Morrison, was born in 1948 in Los Altos, California, and lives in Ashburn, Virginia.

His private memorial service was held on November 24 at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.