Ships
- USS Marblehead (CL-12) Captain from about 1941. The list gives no relief date.
Arthur Granville Robinson had the light cruiser Marblehead (CL-12) when Japanese bombers hit her on 4 February 1942. NavSource dates him from about 1941 and gives no relief. Uboat.net dates the tour from 12 April 1940 to mid-1942. He received the Navy Cross for that morning, and he retired a vice admiral.
Find a Grave and the Home of Heroes citation page give his birth as 21 May 1892 in Brooklyn, New York. Home of Heroes gives Washington, D.C., as his home town. The Hall of Valor gives the same birth date and the Naval Academy class of 1913, and does not give a birthplace.
Uboat.net lists him as a captain from 1 July 1940. The pages fetched here do not give his duty between the Academy and Marblehead. The Dreadnought Project page for him did not load. The Hoover Institution finding aid for his papers calls him captain of Marblehead in 1940–1942.
He was in command on 4 February 1942. DANFS, which does not name him, has Marblehead bombed that morning at the southern entrance of the Makassar Straits: two direct hits, a near miss, fifteen dead or mortally wounded, and eighty-four seriously injured. She reached Tjilatjap and then steamed more than 9,000 miles to New York. Uboat.net's event for him names him Capt. A. G. Robinson at the rendezvous and places the attack in the Bali Sea. The Hall of Valor prints the Navy Cross for him as commanding officer that day. The citation says the guns under his command destroyed two enemy planes and damaged others, and that his seamanship and the work of his officers and crew saved the ship. A shorter Home of Heroes text says the same action and calls it extraordinary heroism. Uboat.net dates a temporary rear admiral's rank from 16 June 1942, about the time that site ends the Marblehead tour.
The Hall of Valor prints a Legion of Merit, as rear admiral, for service as Commander, All Forces, Aruba-Curacao Area, and later as Commander Trinidad Sector, Caribbean Sea Frontier, and commandant of the Naval Operating Base, Trinidad. The citation, from Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 331 of October 1944, credits him with the employment of surface forces and Army and Navy aircraft against submarines. Aruba-Curacao is the spelling on the page.
The same Hall of Valor page carries a synopsis, marked citation needed, of a gold star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit for command of Task Force 126 in the planning and occupation of the Bremen Enclave from 17 March 1945 to November 1945. No citation text is on the page, and that award is not treated here as established. The Hoover finding aid says he was president of the Military Commission on War Crimes in the Pacific Area from 1946 to 1949, and that the papers run 1913–1968. The Hall of Valor says he retired a vice admiral and gives his death as 1 February 1967. Find a Grave, which styles him VADM, gives 31 January 1967 at Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California, and burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 8, Site 212 LH. Both dates are left standing. No death date is entered as a single day.