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Kinney, Sheldon Hoard, RADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Last Address Annapolis, MD
Date of Passing Dec 11, 2004
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
His brother was killed at Pearl Harbor on the USS Arizona (BB-39) link: Kinney, Gilbert, PO2
He also recieved the following foreign awards:
Order of the Patriotic War, First Class from the U.S.S.R.
(for perilous convoy protection runs to Murmansk and the northern ports of Russia)
Gold Cross of Merit from the Polish Government in Exile
(for spiriting the treasury of the government in gold bullion across the submarine-infested Atlantic one league ahead of the Nazis from Dakar to New York City for safekeeping.)
Order of Military Merit Ulichi (Korea)
For services provided during command of USS Taylor
1962-1963, Commander, Amphibious Force, US Sixth Fleet