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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Thomas C. Kinkaid

1888 - 1972

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Thomas Cassin Kinkaid (3 April 1888 – 17 November 1972) was an admiral in the United States Navy, known for his service during World War II. He built a reputation as a "fighting admiral" in the aircraft carrier battles of 1942 and commanded the Allied forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was Commander Allied Naval Forces and the Seventh Fleet under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific Area, where he conducted numerous amphibious operations, and commanded an Allied fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of World War II and the last naval battle between battleships in history. Born into a naval family, Kinkaid was ranked in the lower half of his class on his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in June 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas C. Kinkaid has received more than 417,729 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas C. Kinkaid is the 1,125th most popular military personnel, the 3,667th most popular biography from United States and the 58th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Thomas C. Kinkaid ranks 1,125 out of 1,468Before him are Adherbal, Neoptolemus, Abdul Haris Nasution, Augustín Malár, Pavel Rybalko, and Vladimir Kappel. After him are Johanna Wolf, Alexios Strategopoulos, Pavel Grachev, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Marc Mitscher, and Oskar Kummetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Thomas C. Kinkaid ranks 112Before him are José Félix Estigarribia, Odile Defraye, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Sigfried Giedion, Viktor Kingissepp, and Michał Sopoćko. After him are Antonio Ascari, Joachim Lemelsen, Jean Wahl, Richard Kohn, Francisco Canaro, and Friedrich Wolf. Among people deceased in 1972, Thomas C. Kinkaid ranks 101Before him are Milton L. Humason, Robert Casadesus, Max Fleischer, René Mayer, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Jessie Royce Landis. After him are František Čáp, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Roberto Clemente, Bruce Cabot, Miriam Hopkins, and Prince William of Gloucester.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas C. Kinkaid ranks 3,667 out of 18,182Before him are Jackie Gleason (1916), Rufus Wainwright (1973), M. Emmet Walsh (1935), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Elmore James (1918), and Hubert Selby Jr. (1928). After him are David Huddleston (1930), Jack Nance (1943), Kelly Johnson (1910), Kevin Hart (1979), Sherilyn Fenn (1965), and James Michael Tyler (1962).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Thomas C. Kinkaid ranks 58Before him are Lucius D. Clay (1898), Alexander Vandegrift (1887), Kit Carson (1809), Doris Miller (1919), George Dewey (1837), and Charles Robert Jenkins (1940). After him are Marc Mitscher (1887), James M. Gavin (1907), John C. Woods (1911), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Wesley Clark (1944), and William Calley (1943).