Adm. Isaac Kidd Dies; Led Atlantic Fleet

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 2, 1999 | Copyright information

Isaac Campbell Kidd Jr., 79, a Navy admiral who retired in 1978 as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and as NATO's supreme allied commander in the Atlantic, died June 27 at his home in Alexandria. He had been battling cancer for five years.

Adm. Kidd's Navy career spanned 40 years, including combat operations in the Pacific, Atlantic and the Mediterranean during World War II and service in the office of the chief of Naval Operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the loss...

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