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...Regiment stiffened slightly; the flutter of programs stopped. Midshipman Isaac Campbell Kidd Jr. marched quietly up the ramp, saluted smartly, grasped his commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox...
...date Navy casualty figures dwarfed previous unofficial estimates of 1,500 dead, 1,500 wounded: officers (including Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, commanding a battleship division of the Pacific Fleet), 91 dead, 20 wounded, enlisted men, 2,638 dead, 636 wounded. Army losses, based on "practically complete reports": 168 killed in action; 223 wounded; 26 missing. A Japanese fifth column, "the most effective actually in this war since Norway," knew the sites of all defenses, the comings & goings of the various patrols...
...went to work for Gallaudet Corp. (airplanes) as vice president and general manager, saw it fold up, with his active assistance, because it lacked the breath of life. Then he organized Consolidated, and settled down in Buffalo. He had a trick of picking good men. One of them was Isaac M. Laddon, onetime Army aircraft engineer who is now vice president of Consolidated and the design genius who turns out Consolidated planes. Another was Larry Bell, now head of Bell Aircraft Corp. When Fleet decided to move to San Diego in 1935, Larry Bell organized his own company and stayed...
Daymond shot down his second Nazi plane. But in drawing blood, the Eagles shed it. They lost Pilot Officer William Isaac Hall of Springfield, Vt. But they hoped he was all right; the last they saw of his damaged machine, it was gliding toward open country, wheels down...
Died. William Guggenheim, 72, philanthropist, maverick younger brother of the copper & nitrate tycoons; in Manhattan. He retired from active participation in the family's businesses in 1900, 16 years later sued Brothers Isaac, Daniel, Murray, Solomon and Simon for $10,000,000, charging they had induced him to waive rights in Chilean mines of whose values he had been ignorant...