Oral history interview with Thomas C. Kinkaid [electronic resource], 1961

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Education, Naval Academy; world cruise, 1908; Turkey, burning of Smyrna; Geneva Conference, 1932; Naval Attaché, Rome and Belgrade, 1938-41; Benito Mussolini, Galeazzo Ciano, Bernard Berenson, Spanish Royal family; destroyer squadron, convoy duty; Pearl Harbor, 1941; Task Force II, carrier operations, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Eastern Solomons; Commander North Pacific Fleet, Aleutians; combat intelligence; preparations for Philippine campaign; detailed description of Leyte Gulf and subsequent operations; Yellow Sea and Korea; Shanghai, Chungking; impressions of General Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, many prominent naval and political figures.

Subjects

• Admirals--Interviews.
• Diplomacy.
• Interviews.
• Kinkaid, Thomas C. (Thomas Cassin), 1888-1972--Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• United States. Navy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1971.