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3. Mai 2018 · The family’s naval patriarch, John S. “Slew” McCain Sr., was posthumously awarded the rank of full admiral. He died in 1945, four days after he witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the ...
21. Apr. 2020 · Trimble’s work is a definitive success and another addition to his growing list of publications on the history (and future) of naval aviation. William Trimble. Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019. $18. Reviewed by NHF Director of Membership Programs, ENS Sean Bland, USNR.
John S. McCain Sr. John Sidney McCain, Sr., pseud. Slew (ur. 9 sierpnia 1884 w Carroll County, zm. 6 września 1945 w Coronado) – amerykański wojskowy, admirał Marynarki Wojennej Stanów Zjednoczonych .
John Sidney McCain, Sr. was part of a long unbroken line of McCains in the American military - starting with a direct ancestor on the staff of General George Washington down to two great-grandsons currently (2009) serving in the US Navy and Marines. World War II was also a family affair; John S. McCain, Sr. rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral in ...
His grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., called “Sid” or “Slew,” was the first of the family to attend the United States Naval Academy, and the first to become a naval aviator, earning his wings at the age of fifty. As a passed midshipman, he served in the Philippines on a gunboat skippered by Chester Nimitz, and sailed home to America on the flagship of Teddy Roosevelt’s “Great White ...
His grandfather, Admiral John S. "Slew" McCain, Sr. (1884–1945), was a pioneer of aircraft carrier operations who in 1942 commanded all land-based air operations in support of the Guadalcanal Campaign, and who ultimately in 1944–1945 aggressively led the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.
