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James Laurence Kauffman (18 April 1887 – 21 October 1963) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of vice admiral.He distinguished himself as commanding officer of destroyer USS Jenkins (DD-42) during World War I and received the Navy Cross, the United States second-highest decoration awarded for valor in combat.
Draper L. Kauffman, the son of Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman, was born in San Diego, California, on 4 August 1911.He attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Kent School in Kent, Connecticut and was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Ohio in 1929.
Rear Admiral J. L. Kauffman embarked in the amphibious force command ship USS Wasatch to establish his temporary headquarters aboard while the ship was berthed at San Pedro Bay, Leyte as Commander, Philippine Sea Frontier, from 29 November to 2 December 1944. [3] Kauffman was later promoted to vice admiral.
Rear Admiral Walden L. Ainsworth USN (4 July 1942 - 8 Jan 1943) Rear Admiral Mahlon Tisdale USN (8 January 1943 - 2 January 1944) Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman USN (2 January 1944 - 31 October 1944) Rear Admiral Walden L. Ainsworth USN (31 October 1944 - 13 July 1945) Rear Admiral William H. P. Blandy USN (13 July 1945 - 2 September 1945)
Father of Navy admiral James L. Holloway III. 172: Roscoe F. Good: 27 Mar 1953 1 Mar 1958 5 Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), 1953–1956. Commander, Naval Forces Far East, 1956–1958. (1897–1974) Retired as admiral, 1 Mar 1958. 173: Thomas S. Combs: 30 Jun 1953 1 Apr 1960 7 Commander, Second Fleet, 1953–1954.
The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, formerly Company, was a Marine Corps special operations forces of United States Marine and Hospital corpsman that performed clandestine operation preliminary pre–D-Day amphibious reconnaissance of planned beachheads and their littoral area within uncharted enemy territory for the joint-Navy/Marine force commanders of the ...
Rear Admiral Kauffman flew his flag in Williamsburg until the spring of 1942. By then, the ship had been moored alongside the main quay at Reykjavík. She provided Kauffman with a headquarters and served as quarters for the communications personnel and the admiral's staff.
First Fleet Admiral; Chief of Naval Operations (1937–1939), during World War II; became the first fleet admiral and crafted a future thought leadership; served as Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, which was the role model for the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Governor of Puerto Rico (1939–1940) ambassador to the Vichy ...