Born on Aug 6, 1889 in Nova Scotia Canada. United States Four Star Army Air Force General. A much decorated World War II air force commander who served in the Pacific under General Douglas MacArthur and considered a pioneer of Aerial Warfare Strategy and Tactics. After World War I, he attended engineering school at McCook Field, Ohio and pioneered the mounting of machine guns on warplane wings to increase firepower. As instructor at the Tactical School, he developed low altitude attack tactics and the parachute fragmentation bomb. MacArthur presented Gen. Kenney the Distinguished Service Medal in 1944 called him "one of the world's outstanding air leaders" and credited him with wrestling air superiority from Japan. For his efforts in that war, the General was also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and cluster, the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross and numerous international commendations. From 1946-1948 he organized and commanded the Strategic Air Command and became Commandant of the Air University in 1948, retiring in 1951, a Four Star General. He was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1971. He also authored 3 books, one about his war experiences, one about Paul Gunn and another on Richard Bong, both exceptional airmen under his command. He was a member of Bethesda Lodge AF&AM of Brighton, Massachusetts being initiated in 1913. His birth took place while the family was on vacation and he was raised in Massachusetts.(from Find a Grave)