Marc mitscher biography
Admiral marc mitscher biography
Marc A. Mitscher.
Biography
of
Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher was born in Hillsboro, WI, on 26 January 1887, the son of Oscar and Myrta (nee Shear) Mitscher.
Marc's grandfather, Andreas Mitscher, was a German immigrant from Traben-Trarbach. In 1854, Andreas married Constantina Moln who was also of German descent.
Marc mitscher biography
During the western land boom of 1889, when Marc was two years old, his family resettled in Oklahoma City, OK, where his father, a federal Indian Agent, later became that city's second mayor. Despite the family settlement in Oklahoma, records attest that Mitscher attended elementary and secondary schools in Washington, DC, and he received an appointment to the U.S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, in 1906. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910.
Marc's first assignment was serving his two-year assignment at sea on the armored cruiser USS Colorado (ACR-7). [Until 1912, a Midshipman graduating from the U.S.
Naval Academy was require