He came from a long line of military figures and chose the Royal Navy in 1903. Sir Tom Phillipsīorn in Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall on February 19, 1888, Sir Thomas Spencer Vaughn Phillips was nicknamed “Tom Thumb” due to his stature. flag officer killed by a foreign enemy, Kidd was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Although Kidd’s body was never found, his Academy ring was found fused to the bridge’s bulkhead, as was a trunk containing his personal effects, which were returned to his widow. Hastening aboard his flagship, the battleship USS Arizona, he directed its defense until bombs penetrated its bridge and magazine, destroying the ship and killing 1,177 of its crew. Captain Kidd photographed on the deck of his ship, circa 1939. He was ashore when a force of six Japanese aircraft carriers attacked Pearl Harbor that morning.
Kidd had attained the rank of rear admiral, commander of Battleship Division 1 and chief of staff and aide to the commander of the Battleship Battle Force at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Dec. During World War I he served aboard the battleship USS New Mexico. Naval Academy in 1906 and taking part in the Great White Fleet’s globe-girdling “show of the flag” in 1907-1909. Isaac Campbell Kidd was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 26, 1884, graduating from the U.S. How These World War II Admirals Died Battling At Sea Close
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