Admirals killed in action?
RADM Isaac Kidd, who went down with the Arizona, was the first US flag officer to be killed in WWII. But unless I've missed something, wasn't he in fact the first USN admiral ever to be killed in...
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More to come. I believe a few more died in action in the Solomon islands. [Added later]I forgot the Kidd class DDG.
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WW2: Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship, the USS Arizona (BB-39), during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Rear Admiral Daniel Callaghan, who was killed...
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Right, right, right. But was Kidd the first? I think he was.
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Was Foote an admiral at the time he died in the US Civil War? IIRC he died of infection from wounds he received while commanding the river gunboats for Grant on the upper Mississippi.
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Foote held the rank of Rear Admiral, but he died of kidney disease in New York; it had nothing to do with enemy action.
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IcelofAngeln wrote:Foote held the rank of Rear Admiral, but he died of kidney disease in New York; it had nothing to do with enemy action.Thanks. I also finally looked him up and realized I had...
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