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John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (August 9, 1884 – September 6, 1945) was a U.S. Navy admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific campaign of World War II. McCain was a pioneer of aircraft carrier operations〔Timberg, ''An American Odyssey'', (pp. 17–34. )〕 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. His operations off the Philippines and Okinawa, and air strikes against Formosa and the Japanese home islands, caused tremendous destruction of Japanese naval and air forces in the closing period of the war.〔Alexander, ''Man of the People'', pp. 13–14.〕 He died four days after the formal Japanese surrender ceremony. He was the father of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr.; they became the first fatherson pair ever to achieve four star admiral rank in the U.S. Navy. He was the grandfather of U.S. Senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican presidential nominee Navy Captain John S. McCain III, and the great-grandfather of John S. McCain IV. All four generations graduated from the United States Naval Academy. ==Early life, education and family== McCain was born in Carroll County, Mississippi, the son of plantation owner〔McCain and Salter, ''Faith of My Fathers'', p. 21.〕 John Sidney McCain (b. Mississippi, 1851 – d. 1934) and wife Elizabeth-Ann Young (b. Mississippi, 1855 – d. 1922), who married in 1877. His grandparents were William Alexander McCain (b. 1812, North Carolina – 1864) and Mary Louisa McAllister, who were married in 1840. He attended the University of Mississippi for two years, where he joined the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and then decided to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, where his brother William Alexander McCain was enrolled.〔McCain and Salter, ''Faith of My Fathers'', pp. 22–23.〕 To practice for its entrance exams, he decided to take the ones for the United States Naval Academy; when he passed those and earned an appointment, he decided to attend there instead.〔 In doing so, he would leave behind his Mississippi plantation and adopt the Navy's itinerant life.〔 At the Naval Academy, his performance was lackluster.〔 He failed his annual physical on account of defective hearing, but the condition was waived due to the great need for officers.〔 When he graduated in 1906, he ranked 79 out of 116 in his class, and the yearbook labeled him "The skeleton in the family closet of 1906."〔 He married Catherine Davey Vaulx, who was eight years his senior (b. Fayetteville, Arkansas, January 9, 1876 – d. San Diego, California, May 29, 1959), on August 9, 1909, at Colorado Springs, Colorado. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John S. McCain Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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