Robbins, if Ned Beach is to be believed (and Heaven knows he was not an emotionally detached historian in 1946), Morton ws suffering from some pretty serious stress-related issues by the time of Wahoo's seventh war patrol. He had just gone in and out of the Sea of Japan and come back with nothing to show for it, largely (again, from Beach) due to the chronically defective torpedoes. He set out to prove a point, not the best mental attitude for the challenges he was facing. Before that, he was bold, and his successes helped break the Submarine Service out of the prewar mind-set. But nothing I've read suggests he was suicidal. On what are you basing your judgement?
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