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Their central thrust, with a force built around five battleships, would rush the narrow San Bernardino Strait and strike Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet, guarding the Leyte beach head, on its northern flank...
Meanwhile, the combined naval attack forces, under suave, bushy-browed Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid, were on their way. For a while it was a toss-up whether A-day would have to be postponed; a minor typhoon was whirling through the gulf. It died out and gave no trouble...
...beyond the retirement age (64), he was still learning his art, still finding new plays for his battle-tried team in which Sutherland and the three Ks (Krueger, Kinkaid and Kenney - see below) functioned as smoothly as the Naval Observatory clock in Washington. It was a winning team, and Douglas MacArthur had made...
Pleasantries at Sea. The Nashville, bearing MacArthur, drew into the convoy on A-minus-three. Kinkaid blinkered: "Welcome to our city." Unusually exuberant, MacArthur blinkered back: "Glad to be in your domicile and under your flag. We're nearly there." Until they were there, and established ashore, Kinkaid would be "over" MacArthur...
Soon Admiral Kinkaid's PT boats will be using Talasea harbor as a base. Meanwhile Kinkaid's navy, composed mostly of small craft, roams the Bismarck Sea at will, bears down with flaming guns to silence Jap shore batteries. Even PTs serve prominently in such activities. MacArthur described them as "shelling" several Jap positions. Observers of the heightening South Pacific war concluded that heavier weapons have been added to the PTs' cluster of 50-caliber guns to help exploit the advantages and widening opportunities of the Bismarck...