Word: kinkaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Screening the Leyte landings were two great U S. fleets: the Seventh, attached to MacArthur under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid. and the Third, reporting to Admiral Chester Nimitz 5,000 miles away in Hawaii and carrying the flag of Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey...
...five men he sent letters asking: "If it would be convenient, could you possibly send me a short statement on your participation in the battle? Yours very truly, Bill Frazer." Addressees: Admiral William F. Halsey, in 1944 commander of the U.S. Third Fleet; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Central Philippines Attack Force; and three defeated Japanese sea fighters-Vice Admirals Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita and Kiyohide Shima...
...coping with this Japanese maneuver, the U.S. Third and Seventh Fleets. Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid commanding, left the five-day-old Leyte beachhead perilously unguarded. Rear Admiral Clifton "Ziggy" Sprague's light task force of baby flattops with a destroyer screen was cruelly trapped by a surprise attack from San Bernardino Strait. On the question of who was to blame hinges the Leyte Gulf controversy that has sputtered ever since. Nearly all of Historian Morison's evidence in this book supports the notion that "Bull"' Halsey was the most blameworthy; he fell for and chased the decoy...
...S.M.U. library, furnished half the cost of the $2,000,000 library at Rice Institute. It helped build Houston's Methodist Hospital, and it also helps support Episcopal St. Luke's. It has done everything from building a gymnasium for the students of Houston's Kinkaid School to founding the Methodist Home (for orphans) in Waco and giving Houston's Texas Medical Center an Institute of Religion...
...King held Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid both at fault in the Battle for Leyte Gulf-Halsey for letting himself be drawn off base by a Japanese decoy force, Kinkaid for not making dawn air searches...