United States Navy Admiral. A highly decorated naval officer, he is remembered for his exploits as a submarine commander during World War II, for which he received the Navy Cross four times, the Silver Star twice, and the Bronze Star. Born Glynn Robert Donaho, he was accepted into the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1923 and graduated in June 1927. He served for most of the next three years in the battleship USS California. In 1931, after being promoted to the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), he began active submarine service as an officer of USS S-12 and was transferred a few years later to USS R-3. He attended the Naval Postgraduate School during the mid-1930s, reached the rank of lieutenant in mid-1936 and in 1937 was assigned to Submarine Squadron 4. In 1940 and 1941 he was the commanding officer of the submarine R-4. When the US entered World War II on December 7, 1941, he was the prospective commanding officer of the new submarine Flying Fish, which he placed in commission a few days later and operated with distinction during six war patrols in the Pacific. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander at the beginning of 1942 and to the rank of commander in September of that year. During 1944 and several months of 1945, he commanded both a submarine division and the submarine Picuda, conducting further notably successful combat operations against Japanese shipping, and finished the Pacific War as a battleship force staff officer. In November 1945 he testified as a witness at the court martial of Captain Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis that was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945. Although he was called as a prosecution witness, his testimony was actually helpful to McVay. Both he and Mochitsura Hashimoto, the commander of I-58, the Japanese submarine that sank the Indianapolis, testified that zigzagging would not have saved it. During the latter 1940s he served as Director of the Navy's Recruiting Division and, from 1948, Commander Submarine Squadron 3. From 1950 to 1951 he attended the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, then served as Head of the Foreign Military Aid Branch of the Office of Chief of Naval Operations, Washington DC. From 1953 to 1955 he served as Commander Destroyer Squadron 17, followed by assignment as Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Seventh Fleet. In 1957 he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and became a destroyer flotilla commander. The same year, he returned to the Office of Chief of Naval Operations and served as Director of the Logistics Plans Division and, from September 1959 to September 1962, as Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations/Director of Naval Administration. He was the Navy's Inspector General for nearly a year before attaining the rank of Vice Admiral in August 1963 and receiving assignment as Commander, Fleet Activities Command. In June 1964 he became Commander Military Sea Transportation Service and served in that position until he retired in 1967, with 40 years of continuous military service. His military decorations and awards include the Navy Cross with three gold stars, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star with one bronze star, the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal with one bronze star and "V" device, the Navy Unit Commendation Medal with one bronze star, the American Defense Service Medal with Atlantic Clasp, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one silver and two bronze service stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal, the China Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal with one bronze star, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Korea Medal, and the Philippine Liberation Medal. He died at the age of 81.