He finished the war as gunnery officer on the Arkansas. When the American battleship squadron joined the Grand Fleet, he became staff gunnery officer to its commander, Admiral Hugh Rodman. Upon the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917, Kimmel was sent to Great Britain he materially assisted the Royal Navy in improving its gunfire techniques and participated in a British naval raid on Helgoland in the North Sea. During 1915 he served briefly as aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D.

He married Dorothy Kinkaid, daughter of a future admiral, on Jan. He was wounded slightly at the Veracruz intervention in 1914. Between 19 he served twice as assistant to the director of target practice at the Navy Department, on board two more battleships, and as gunnery officer of the Pacific Fleet. He became the fleet's champion officer of the main battery twelve-inch guns and an important staff officer. Late in 1907 Kimmel was assigned to the battleship Georgia of the 'Great White Fleet' for its global cruise.

Brief tours of duty on five ships along the eastern seaboard culminated in his being commissioned an ensign and given additional instruction in ordnance engineering in 1906. He immediately excelled in naval gunnery, thereby placing himself in line for key professional posts and promotions. Kimmel was assigned to the Naval War College at Newport, R.I., for postgraduate instruction in ordnance. He won high standing in the class of 1904, which was graduated early (in February) to fulfill manpower requirements in the new battleship navy. In 1900 he obtained an appointment to the United States Naval Academy among his classmates was William F. He then spent a year at Central University in Richmond, Ky. Determined to follow his father into the military, Kimmel tried unsuccessfully to enter West Point. His father, a graduate of West Point, served in the Union cavalry at the First Battle of Bull Run, after which he entered the Confederate service. 26, 1882 - May 14, 1968), naval officer, was born in Henderson, Ky., the son of Manning Marius Kimmel, a civil engineer and businessman, and Sibbella Lambert. Courtesy of World War II Database Kimmel, Husband Edward (Feb.

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