Kinkaid Thomas, born 03-04-1888 in Hanover, New Hampshire, the son of Rear Admiral Thomas W. Kinkaid, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1908, then served in the Great White Fleet in its circumnavigation of the globe. Kinkaid began his naval career in ordnance and aboard battleships. During World War I, he was assigned as a naval envoy at the British Admiralty. From 1929 to 1930, he attended the Naval War College. Promoted to captain in 1937, he commanded a cruiser, and two years later, he was assigned as naval attaché to Italy and Yugoslavia. Kinkaid’s sister Dorothy was married with Admiral Husband Kimmel.







Death and burial ground of Kinkaid, Thomas Cassin.




He retired in May 1950 and died in Bethesda, Maryland, on 17-11-1972, old age 84, and is buried on Arlington National Cemetery, Section 5. Close by in Section 5 the graves of the Navy Admiral, Commander Tenth Naval District, John Hoover
and Marine Corps General, Commander of the 4th Infantry Division, nickname “Ivy Division”
with casualties during the European campaign, 2.611 killed in action and 9.895 wounded in action, Clifton Cates.
Also buried Major General, Commanding General of the Tenth Air Force, Clayton Lawrence Bissel, The Tenth Air Force, was created 04-07-1942 to replace the American Volunteer Group, and commanded by Brigadier Geneneral Claire Chennault.


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