Only his Class of 1906 Naval Academy ring. The Admiral, standing on the bridge above that magazine was killed instantly, almost certainly incinerated by the blast. As the attack progressed, a Japanese plane dropped a bomb on the Arizona which struck its forward magazine, blowing up the ship. According to eyewitness accounts, when the attack began, Admiral Kidd bravely rushed to the bridge and assumed command as the senior officer on board.
Among them was Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, whose flagship was the Arizona. So just who was Isaac Campbell Kidd? When the USS Arizona went down during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941-a date, according to President Franklin Roosevelt "which will live on in infamy," 1171 members of its crew of 1511 men lost their lives. The house in which Admiral Kidd was born sat about 100 feet down the alley, on the right side. Then, just after you passed the Robert Russell Rhodes mansion (which today houses the Cuyahoga County Archives), you would turn left onto West 31st Place, and then quickly left again onto Mabel Court, a winding little alley with just a handful of houses on it. From Franklin Circle, you drove west on Franklin Boulevard. To get there, you had to know a little Ohio City geography. The little grey house, built in about 1875, was located at 3059 Mabel Court. And, if you read the rest of this story, you'll learn that it is now impossible. It was never easy to find the birthplace of Isaac Campbell Kidd, one of Cleveland's most important World War II war heroes.
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