Word: kidd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rear Admiral Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Callaghan was killed in this action, the third U.S. admiral to lose his life in battle (the others: Rear Admirals Isaac Kidd and John Wilcox...
...Naval Academy and its guests broke into a thunderous cheer- an unprecedented demonstration in honor of Ensign Kidd and his father, a rear admiral who commanded a division of the Pacific Fleet, was killed at Pearl Harbor...
...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...
Most, like Ensign Kidd, asked for submarine duty. Of the 547 graduates, 25 top men remained at the Academy for four months to instruct Naval Reservists, some went to engineering schools for a few months' further technical instruction in radio, etc., the rest, after a month's leave, will go straight to naval aviation...
...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...