biography
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Kirk, Alan G(oodrich)
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| lived:
| (1888–1963)
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| biography:
| US naval officer and diplomat, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He trained at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, served as naval attaché in London (1939–41), and was promoted rear-admiral in 1941. He commanded the amphibious forces in the invasion of Sicily (1943) and the Western Task Force in the Normandy landing in 1944. He later became ambassador to Belgium (1946–9), the USSR (1949–52), and Taiwan (1962). |
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