Kemp tolley biography
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Kemp Tolley
American historian
Rear AdmiralKemp Tolley (29 April 1908 – 28 October 2000) was an officer in the U.S. Navy and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the history of U.S.
Navy activities in the Pacific, China, and the Soviet Union.
Early life
Admiral Tolley was born in Manila in, while his father, Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Kemp Tolley, was serving there in the U.S. Army, Kemp Tolley was a 1929 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he was a member of Phi Alpha Theta.[1]
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Early career
During the 1930s, Tolley served aboard battleships, cruisers and a submarine tender.
Kemp tolley biography
He also served on the exotic China station, becoming executive officer of the river gunboatUSS Tutuila on the upper Yangtze River.
Tolley had a natural aptitude for languages and was fluent in Russian, German, French and Spanish.
World War II
Tolley, then a lieutenant, left Hankou, China on 27 November 1941 aboard