Word: kinkaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. But last week the ground force commanders-and the admirals who put them ashore-left no doubt that such idleness would be shortlived. The Tenth Army's "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell told his troops he hoped they would be home by next Independence Day. Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet was for keeping up the pressure, "so Japan can't get back on balance...
...surprised no one. Thirty-five line officers' names were on it. Three wingless vice admirals got a fourth star: grizzled 60-year-old Richard S. Edwards, King's deputy COMINCH; shy, barrel-chested Henry K. Hewitt, 58, "Nimitz of the Mediterranean"; suave, salty Thomas C. Kinkaid, 57, boss of the Seventh Fleet and member of MacArthur's famous "K-team" (Kinkaid, Krueger and Kenney). Five rear admirals got three stars-but none of the eight was a naval aviator, and none was under 53. Only in the lower echelons did a few stars fall on airmen...
Part the First. So vast was the armada under Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid that it was divided into four: 1) bombardment and fire-support group, under Vice Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (victor of Surigao Strait); 2) close cover group, under Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey; 3) San Fabian Attack Force, with troops for the northern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; 4) Lingayen Attack Force, with troops for the southern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson...
...southern prong had been struck by air attack, was plowing on. Before it stood the heavy firepower of Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. The Seventh would stop it, and smash it to bits in the twelve-mile-wide gut of Surigao. The northern group, approaching San Bernardino Strait, had also been air-attacked. Airmen reported that it had been turned back...
...admiral had his problems, too. To the south the other arm of the pincers (through Surigao Strait) had been broken. Between him and escape in that direction lay Kinkaid's main force, unhurt and full of fight. And toward him from the north steamed Halsey with the most powerful force in the Pacific; Halsey's first planes were already thundering toward Leyte Gulf. The Jap admiral made his own quick decision: he turned and fled into San Bernardino Strait...