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...last Jap was off Los Negros. But the main objectives had been captured. Momote airfield, swiftly taken, had been rehabilitated and U.S. fighter craft were operating from its strip in support of forward units. Jap shore batteries on nearby Manus Island had been silenced by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's navy and supply-burdened LSTs were unloading without enemy interference. One of the first Navy shipments: fresh beef to supplement the Army's K-rations...
From New Guinea a convoy of cruisers, destroyers and amphibious craft, led by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Southwest Pacific naval chief, slid into the night, crossed the waters to Cape Gloucester on New Britain's western tip. Early in the morning after Christmas, naval guns pummeled the dim Jap shore, waves of Army Liberators and Mitchells raked the enemy's defenses, laid a screen of TIME, JANUARY 3, 1944 smoke bombs. Minutes later the first landing barge hit the beach. Out spilled U.S. Marines, tough veterans of Guadalcanal, under the command of Major General William H. Rupertus...
Annapolis--Stroke, Kinkaid; 7, Richardson; 6, Rockwell; 5, McKee; 4, Bagg; 3, Leighton; 2, Ainsworth; bow, Davis; cox., Roberts...
...ship drills, but has recovered sufficiently to row in the race next Wednesday. The position of stroke, made vacant by the loss of Ingram who was perhaps the greatest factor in the success of the crew last year, has been the most difficult to fill. Kinkaid, the new stroke, is big and powerful, but lacks experience, as he has never stroked before. The other men in the boat have almost all been developed from last year's second crew...
...same order that it has had in practice for some weeks. The following list gives the order and weights of the men, the average age being 20 years, 4 months, and the average weight being 166 1-2 pounds, which is considerably less than the Harvard eight. Stroke, Kinkaid, 160; 7, Leighton, 179; 6, Rockwell (capt.), 173; 5, Richardson, 160; 4, Bagg, 163; 3, Magruder, 173; 2, Ainsworth, 160; bow, Davis, 164; cox., Roberts...