Thomas Cassin Kinkaid was an admiral in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He commanded an Allied fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He was the first member of his family to serve in the Korean and Chinese Civil Wars.
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Thomas Cassin Kinkaid was an admiral in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He commanded an Allied fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He was ranked in the lower half of his class on his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in June 1908. He saw action during the 1916 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. He served with the American Battle Monuments Commission for 15 years before his retirement in May 1950. He is survived by his wife, Virginia Lee née Cassin, and his son, Thomas W. Kinkaido, who served in the Air Force during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. His grandson, Thomas Wright Kinkai, is a former U. S. Air Force pilot who served during the Second World War and served as a member of the National Security Training Commission for much of the rest of the decade. His great-great-grandson, William S. Benson, was a former Chief of the Naval Operations Staff and a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Navy. He also served as the President of the Board of Education for the University of New Hampshire. He died on December 11, 1998. He will be buried in Annapolis, Maryland, where he was a midshipman in July 1904, when he took an instructional cruise on the USSNevada. He went on to become a captain in the Navy and served in World War I, the First Gulf War, and the Second Gulf War.
He retired from the Navy in 1950 and was the first member of his family to serve in the Korean and Chinese Civil Wars. He had a son and a daughter, both of whom died in childhood. He has a daughter and a son-in-law who are both still serving in the military and served with him in the First World War, as well as in the Second and Third World Wars. His grandchildren, Thomas and Dorothy, are currently serving as members of the United Nations Security Council and the Joint chiefs of staff. He passed away on December 16, 2013. He lived in Annapolitan, Maryland. He wrote a book about his experiences in the Pacific War called “The Last Battle of the Surigao Strait: The Last Battle Between Battleships in History” The book is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of Random House, and is available on Kindle for $20.99. For more information, visit www.simon-schuster.co.uk or www.random.com/the-last-battle-of-the-surigao-strait-by-battleship-history. For confidential support call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. For confidential. support on suicide matters call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch or click here. For information on suicide prevention in the UK, see www.samaritans.org.
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