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THIS WEEK'S PICTURE: Pete Clayton’s picture and shows Captain George T. Mundorff, Jr., 1905-1978, reaching for the 1MC while standing on the ship’s bridge; he then read the notice to the crew that a ‘cease fire’ had been achieved in the Korean War in 1953. Mundorff served as the ship’s captain from May 1952 to May 1953 while the USS Lake Champlain CVA-39 served in the Korean War Theater. The last U. S. Navy bombing mission in the war was flown off the USS Lake Champlain CVA-39.

George T. Mundorff Jr., USNA Class of 1926, later Rear Admiral, served as Director of Naval Photography, Naval Photography Unit, BUAER, Navy Department, Washington, DC, Navy Yard in 1946. A Naval Aviator by 1928 George T. Mundorff, Jr. flew with the “Nine High Hats”, the
predecessor of the Navy’s famed “Blue Angels”.

As LCDR in he became the commanding officer of Patrol Squadron Twenty-One, VP-21 of Patrol Wing Two in February 1941 under Rear Admiral Patrick N. L. Bellinger. Mundorff was operating PBY Catalina flying boats from Midway Island and Johnson Island when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.