George A. Seitz

Commodore George A. Seitz was a high ranking officer in the United States Navy.He was born March 13, 1897, in Rochester, NY. Seitz graduated from the Naval Academy in Anapolis in 1916. He attended graduate school at MIT and organized the transport of material to North Africa during the Allied invasion and occupation. He later commanded the USS Bunker Hill, and helped to save that ship during the worst suicide attack against America before September 11th.Fact|date=October 2008 After the war, Seitz became Commander of the Marshall Islands. According to US Navy records, he was flown from his Headquarters at Kwajalein, on October 15, 1947 for treatement of a severe case of Bronchial Pneumonia. He died there of a "heart ailment" ten days later. He was fifty years old. America detonated two atomic bombs in the Marshall Islands before Commodore Seitz died. A school in the Marshall Islands is named for Seitz.Fact|date=October 2008http://www.everysingleplace.com/marshall-islands/Schools/George_Seitz_Elementary_School_772273.html

Sources: Seitz'NYTimes obituary, interviews with crewmen aboard the Bunker Hill, Official reports of the nuclear tests at the Marshall Islands, and Commodore Seitz official Navy record. Most of these details are covered in my book Danger's Hour which will be published this Fall (2008) by Simon and Schuster.http://www.dangershour.com/

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