Morton J. Gold

Who is Morton J. Gold?

Morton Joseph Gold was an American Air Force brigadier general who was staff judge advocate for Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. In this position he was responsible for advising the commander in chief, PACAF, on all legal matters and interpreting and administering military law and justice for the command.

Gold was born in 1917, in New York City, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School. He attended New York University, University of Iowa and received a bachelor of laws degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1949. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, New York State Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, and the U.S. Customs Court.

He entered active military service in February 1941 and has served in all branches of the Armed Forces, beginning with the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, then the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and since 1949 in the U.S. Air Force.

Upon the basis of his civilian pilot training prior to his entrance on active duty and subsequent aviation cadet training, he was assigned in October 1941 as a navigation instructor at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. He later served as communications officer with the Carrier Aircraft Service Unit #1, Pacific; and as a flight navigator during 1944-1945 with the Naval Air Transport Service in the South Atlantic and Pacific.