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WWI Victory Medal
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Criteria
The World War I Victory Medal was awarded for military service during the First World War. It was awarded for active service between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918; for service with the American... The World War I Victory Medal was awarded for military service during the First World War. It was awarded for active service between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918; for service with the American Expeditionary Forces in European Russia between November 12, 1918, and August 5, 1919; or for service with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia between November 23, 1918, and April 1, 1920. MoreHide
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Description
He served in the US Navy from 1917 to 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. His commission came about as he understood the operation a device used in the Navy for recording radio and telephone c... He served in the US Navy from 1917 to 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. His commission came about as he understood the operation a device used in the Navy for recording radio and telephone conversations - the 'telegraphone' - and the manufacturer was no longer in business. MoreHide
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USS MIZPAH, YP-29
Patrol Yacht: Laid down in 1926 as the yacht Savarona by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Newport News, VA. Sold to Eugene F. McDonald of Philadelphia, PA, in 1928 and renamed Mizpah in 1929. At the beginning of World War II, McDonald contributed the ship to the U.S. Navy. Acquired by the Navy, 16 March 1942; Converted at Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Commissioned USS Mizpah (PY-29), 26 October 1942. The ship served as an armed convoy escort and command vessel throughout the war. Decommissioned, 15 January 1946. The ships last resting place is off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida.
Background on: Eugene McDonald Kinney
Eugene McDonald "Skipper" Kinney, 79, a yachtsman and a former senior vice president and director of Zenith Electronics Corp., died Friday, Oct. 13, 2000, in his Deerfield home after an illness. Mr. Kinney was born in Buffalo, N.Y., but spent much of his childhood aboard Mizpah, a 185-foot yacht docked in the Chicago River. The yacht was owned by his uncle, the late Eugene F. McDonald, a Navy intelligence lieutenant commander in World War I and Zenith's founder and former president. After Mr. Kinney's father died in the early 1930s, Mr. Kinney lived with McDonald. Mr. Kinney attended Dartmouth College and served in the South Pacific as a naval officer World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He served on a destroyer and participated in invasions of the Philippines and Okinawa. After serving in the Navy, Mr. Kinney began his four-decade career with Zenith in 1946, the year the UDD Mizpah was decommissioned and transferred to the United States War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 25 September 1946 for disposal. Mr. Kinney entered the sales division of Zenith in 1946. He worked up the ranks to become head of the hearing-aid division in 1957. He became senior vice president in 1972, retiring 10 years later. Mr. Kinney founded Argosy Yachts, a shipbuilding company in Ft. Lauderdale. For 27 years he participated in the annual race to Mackinac Island. He was a past president of the Chicago Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In 1987, he was one of three men who co-founded the Heart of America syndicate, which competed in the America's Cup Challenge.
Mizpah Final years
The WSA then sold her to a private corporation for transporting bananas out of South America until it suffered a broken crankshaft in 1967 and was laid up for repair at Tampa, Florida. At that time, Eugene Kinney, McDonald's nephew and Zenith Corporation vice president, learned of her plight and purchased her. But seeing Mizpah in such disrepair was disheartening, and Kinney scuttled her off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida, on 9 April 1968 along with the USS PC-1174, to serve as an artificial reef to prevent beach erosion and as a SCUBA diver's paradise.
Commander E.F. McDonald purchased a private yacht and named it Mispah. In 1942 he donated the ship to the US Navy. It was commissioned the USS Mizpah (PY-29) and served throughout the war.
USS Mizpah (PY 29). Sold to Eugene F. McDonald of Philadelphia, PA and renamed Allegro; Renamed Mizpah in 1929; Acquired by the Navy, 16 March 1942; Converted at Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Commissioned USS Mizpah (PY-29), 26 October 1942; Decommissioned, 15 January 1946