Sheldon Kinney

Sheldon Hoard Kinney (born August 27, 1918 in Pasadena , California , † December 11, 2004 in Annapolis , Maryland ) was a rear admiral in the US Navy , the commander of warships in three wars and later instructor of naval officers at the State University of Maritime College New York and the World Maritime University in Malmö .

Life

Kinney began his military service in the US Navy in 1935 after leaving high school in Pasadena prematurely as a signal seaman and was admitted to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1937 due to the support of his superiors . In the spring of 1941 he completed his training there as a marine engineer with the rank of midshipman and then worked in various posts after the United States entered the Second World War .

Towards the end of the Second World War he rose to command of the destroyer escort USS Bronstein (DE-189) from the Cannon class , with which he sank the three submarines U 709, U 603 and U 801 of the Kriegsmarine and for this with the Navy Cross was awarded. In addition, he succeeded in incapacitating a fourth submarine, with the USS Bronstein receiving a Presidential Unit Citation for "the most concentrated and most successful anti-submarine action of the US Navy during World War II" .

During the Korean War , he was in command of the USS Taylor (DD-468) , a Fletcher-class destroyer , and successfully participated in the battles in the port of Wonsan . He later became the commandant of the USS Mitscher (DL-2) , the first guided missile cruiser in the US Navy from the Mitscher class of the same name. After the end of the Korean War, he returned to the US Naval Academy as an instructor in 1954, before becoming an officer on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the late 1950s . He also studied law at George Washington University , graduating with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) and was also a graduate of the National War College .

Between 1964 and 1967, as captain at sea, he was in command of the midshipmen course at the US Naval Academy and was therefore responsible for monitoring the military, physical and social development of the students. He then had assignments in the staff of the US Naval Forces Europe and served as the commander of an escort squadron in the Vietnam War . When he was retired in 1972, he was in command of the destroyer cruisers of the US Pacific Fleet .

He then became President of the Maritime College of the State University of New York (SUNY) in Fort Schuyler in the New York borough of Bronx in 1972 . In 1982 he was co-founder and later from April to November 1985 President of the World Maritime University in Malmö, which was set up by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations . During this time he was instrumental in setting up master's and doctoral programs that covered all areas of international shipping .

Publications

• Chapter IX: American Sailors Decorated by the USSR In: Lewis M. Andrews: Tempest, Fire And Foe. Destroyer Escorts in World War II and the Men who manned Them. Trafford, Victoria BC 2004, ISBN 1-4120-2158-8 , pp. 150 ff.

Web links

• THE NEW YORK TIMES: Sheldon H. Kinney, 86, Dies; Commanded Ships in 3 Wars (January 11, 2005)
• THE WASHINGTON POST: Adm. Sheldon Kinney; Veteran of 3 Wars (January 7, 2005)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USS Taylor (DD-468) (destroyerhistory.org) ( Memento October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ WMU Presidents ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )