Kinkaid (DD 965) - Naval Cruise Book

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ADMIRAL THOMAS C. KINKAID Thomas Cassin Kinkaid was born in Hanover, Ncu Hampshire, on April 3, ISXS. He attended the L nited Slates Naval .• cademy and graduated with the Class of 1908. After graduation from the ,- cademy he served in the battleships .NF.BRASkA and MINNK.SO r. until .September 1913, when he reported to the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, for instruction in Ordnance Engineering. From 1916 to 1918 he served aboard the LSS PKN. SVI. ' . NI. with service al the end of the tour with the British .-Xdmiraltv. He was Gunnery Officer aboard LSS . RIZON.A from 1918 to 1919 when she was an escort ship for President Woodrow Wilson, then enroute to the Peace Conference at Versailles. Following a cruise to .Asia .Minor he was ordered to Washington, D.C., for duties with the Bureau of Ordnance, Navv Department, where he remained until July 1922. From 1922 to 1930, Admiral Kinkaid served successively as Assistant Chief of Staff to the Commander. U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters: as Commanding Officer of LSS ISHERWOOD; at the Navy Yard. Naval Gun Factory. V ' ashington. D.C.; and as Fleet Gunnery Officer and .Aide on the Staff of Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet. From 1933 to 1938, Admiral Kinkaid served as E.xecuiive Officer of the L ' SS COLORADO, with the Nav Depart- ment as Officer-in-Charge of the Officer ' s Detailing Section and as Commanding Officer of the LSS INDL N. POLIS. In November of 1938 he became U.S. Naval Attache for Air at the .American Embassy. Rome, with additional duty from March 1939 to March 1941 as Naval Attache to the Embassy in Belgrade. Yugoslavia. He commanded Destroyer Squadron Eight from June 1941 until his promotion to Rear .Admiral in November of the same year. This assignment was followed with command of Cruiser Division Si.x. Pacific Fleet, and a Task Force which engaged in the Battle of the Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands. .■ dmiral Kinkaid became the first surface warfare officer ever to command a Carrier Task Force when he commanded the USS ENTERPRISE .Mr Support Group and accompanying battleships in the Battle o ' Guadalcanal, November 12-15. 1942 In January of 1943 he assumed command of the North Pacific Fleet and played an integral role in ending the Japanese occupation of the Aleutian Islands. From 1943 to 1945. the now Vice .Admiral Kinkaid served as Commander. .Allied Naval Forces. Southwest Pacific .Area. There he supported General Mac.Arthur s landings and helped engineer the defeat of the Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Promoted to full .Admiral in April 1945. Kinkaid continued to serve as Commander, Seventh Fleet until the war ' s end. After the war he returned to the United States and served as Commander, Sixteenth Fleet until his retirement in May 1950. Admiral Kinkaid is the holder of four Distinguished Ser ice Medals and numerous Campaign and Service Medals. In addition he is an Honorary Companion of the Order of the Bath, awarded by King George VI of Great Britian. He is a Grand Officer, Order of the Orange Nassau with the Swords, bestowed by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. .Admiral Kinkaid also holds other decorations from Chile, Belgium and China. TH

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CDR DAVID THOMAS HART, JR. United States Navy CDR Da id Hart, (iriyinally iViMii unkers. New York, was commissioned at the Naval OlTicer C andidatc Sciiool. Newport, Rhode Island, in 1 72. His initial sea tour included duties as CIC officer and later First Lieutenant in USS GI.ENNON (DD- S4(t). Following graduation from the LI.S. Naval Destroyer School, he served as Opera- lions Officer m USS CHARFES P. C ' KCIF (DD-835) and later as Fngincer Officer Ml rSS RACINE (LST-1191). Subsequenth, he commanded USSTACOMA (PG- 92) and later LSS BRONSTIEN (FF-1037). CDR Hart served ashore as Flag Fieutenant, CINCLiSN AVFLiR in Fondon. En- gland, and as Flag Secretary, COMN AVSURFPAC in San Diego. CDR Hart graduated magna cum laude from lona College in 1967. He was award- ed an VIA. in English from the Stale University of New York (Albany) in 1971 and an NFS. in management from Salve Regina College in 1984, while attending the Naval Command and Staff Course at the L!.S. Naval War College from which he graduated with highest distinction. CDR Hart ' s decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commen- dation Medal, and Navy Achievement Medal. CDR Hart is married to the former Joan Harrison of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. They have two sons, Geoffrey and Bryan, and reside in San Diego, California. THE COMMANDING OFFICER