My father Walter H Fourness JR. was a plank holder on Liddle. He was also a NYC fireman. My memories when growing up were stories of the fire department, until i also became a tin can sailor and also a Gunners Mate.(GMM2-USS Buchanan DDG-14) guess he figured that now we have a common reference plane. From 77 until his passing in 06 we had many conversations about his time aboard Liddle. From commissioning in Charleston,the North Atlantic convoys, the refit in Brooklyn ,the canal,and the carnage in the Pacific. His twin 40mm gun was responsible for one of Liddles kills.When asked if he was sure his gun was responsible he would respond,"we tore its engine out, it was coming straight at us, the engine splashed 100yards before the plane did." He did enjoy the "dungaree liberty" during the refit (he lived in Brooklyn).Pacific theater liberty was usually a couple of cases of warm beer on some sandbar that wasnt even there at high tide. When they put in for repairs in S.F. he was granted leave.When he finally got back to Brooklyn 4 or 5 days later (only train travel) there was a recall notice waiting for him. When massing up off the coast of Japan preparing for the invasion of the home islands he formed the conviction"Thank God and Harry Truman" for dropping those bombs. He was convinced it saved a quarter million American lives and several times that many Japanese.In 1968 our family visited Midland, Tx. to visit Waylon T Boddie(Tex) who also served as a GM on Liddle.Tex wrote to me when i was in the USN. He must have passed, no more Christmas cards. I have several pictures of my dad aboard Liddle and the war record that Lou Egidi provided.
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William LaFollette Email:
Location:
Selma, NC USA
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USS Liddle
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Friday, 12 August 2011 - 08:56:37am
Thanks for sharing the pictures.... My cousin, Clarence W. LaFollette was killed in the attack on dec 7 1944 and now i have a picture of him on the ship....
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William LaFollette Email:
Location:
Selma, NC USAA
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USS Liddle
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011 - 04:18:43pm
My cousin Clarence W. LaFollette was on the ship that faithful day and was 1 of the 38 men killed
Name:
Don Odom
Ship:
USS Liddle
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Saturday, 2 July 2011 - 02:48:39pm
My dad was on the Liddle during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His name was Lonnie Odom and he was from Alabama. Known locations he was stationed at during his 8 years in service: Norfolk, Key West, Charleston, Hawaii, Connecticutt. Any photos, recollections, etc. of him would be appreciated.
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Jim DuLude Email:
Location:
sanford, michigan u.s.a.
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liddle
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Friday, 22 April 2011 - 11:15:01am
to lee gray thank you for your comment we were just going through some stuff of dads come across a box of things from ww2 photos,money,jokes,letters.we all miss him a lot you could not have met a nicer man.from the son of Harold DuLude god bless
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harold william liddle Email:
Location:
schoharie, ny us
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Monday, 21 March 2011 - 08:45:51pm
love the history
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Lee Gray Email:
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Monday, 21 February 2011 - 09:56:15pm
Sorry to inform that Hal Dulude BM3/C passed last fall. Hal was aboard when the plane hit the bridge. He stayed with her until decommissioned in Green Cove Springs, FL in 1946. At that time I was QM3/C and kept in touch with Hal until his death.
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Mary L. Williams Hartis Email:
Location:
Charleston, SC
Ship:
USS Liddle
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Monday, 3 January 2011 - 06:58:49pm
My father, Arthur DeWitt Williams served on the Liddle during WWII. He did not really talk much about action or battles with us for some reason but he did tell us he served on the USS Cyrene and the USS Liddle. After he passed away in 1997,my mother's younger sister said something to me about my dad's ship being hit by a plane and he was rescued from the water by another ship and on that ship was my mother's older sister's husband's brother. They did not know each other before that time. I have been trying sporadically to find out more details about my dad's Navy days. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.
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Thomas Fahsbender Email:
Location:
Mansfield, PA USA
Ship:
USS Liddle APD 60
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Friday, 3 December 2010 - 03:11:48pm
I served on the USS Liddle from 1944 to 1946 I was in the engine room and left as a 3rd class mm and retired after 27 years as a LTCD
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Oglesby James R. MMCM Ret. Email:
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Winter Springs, FL USA
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 - 10:23:26pm
I served on Liddle from 1956 to 1959 and was on the de-commission crew in Orange TX.where we put her out of commission in late 59. I went aboard as Fireman deuce and advanced to Machinest Mate Second Class during my tour on her. I was the water king in charge of the evaporators and attached to the A-Gang. The ship was home ported in New Orleans at the Algiers Naval Base. Its mission was training reservests. We sailed generally on a two weeks in two weeks out schedule into the Carribian and had the privlege of visiting some really great ports and cities on those two week training cruises. Would love to hear from any of my shipmates and after looking over the Liddle guest book I intend to do some contacting as well. Until then, Roger Oglesby
Name:
ray posey
Location:
defuniak springs, Fl usa
Ship:
uss liddle apd 60
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Saturday, 14 August 2010 - 07:49:11pm
we are haveing a liddle reunion come on guys e mail me
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Lawrence Lee Lay Email:
Location:
Rock Hill, SC USA
Ship:
USS Liddle APD60
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 - 07:24:37pm
I served as a GM2 aboard the Liddle from Feb 56- Nov 58. Looking for old shipmates.
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Dick Davis Email:
Location:
Ohio, USA Canton
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USS Liddle APD 60
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Wednesday, 4 August 2010 - 03:26:17pm
Having a uss liddle apd60 reunion in myrtle,beach s.c.on october 12, 2010 if interested call me 1-330-452-7322 or call Dan Witt at 1-845-672-3016 for more information
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Gaylon G. Jack Email:
Location:
Watauga, TX 76148 USA
Ship:
6609 Mona Lisa Ave.
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Friday, 9 July 2010 - 06:53:15pm
I was aboard USS Liddle 13-26 May 1956 as a DCW3. We cruised to Havana, Cuba. We left from Naval Station, Algiers, LA and returned to the same. 5-18 January I cruised again aboard the USS Liddle. We were cruising from NOLA to Panama Canal. About the third day out we were hit by a storm and took a 59 degree roll at one point. Over 90% of the crew was sick. We survived the night and the next morning everyone turned to- to clean up the ship.
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H. Gene Kuhn Email:
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Saturday, 3 July 2010 - 04:00:20pm
Served aboard Liddle from 1 Jan 57 thru 30 June '57. Remember Mr. Stefferud, Bm John Fogle, Gary Hetzler (OH), Jim Smth (OH), Jerry Canty (MA) abd especially Norman Baker (CO).
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barbara liddle Email:
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 - 08:37:37pm
where is a picture of the ship uss liddle side view
Webmaster Comment: Since my grandfather served ON the Liddle, he never would have had an opportunity to take a "side view" shot of his own ship. That's why the only "side views" are of other ships in the Liddle's task force, including Kephart and Newman.
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Robert Gray Email:
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USS Liddle (APD-60)
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Thursday, 6 May 2010 - 12:35:40pm
My Dad, Lee Gray, served onboard in 1945/46. He was a QM3 and has many wonderful stories about life onboard. He had great respect for the CO, Captain Kennedy. Fantastic web site!
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Robert Munger Email:
Location:
Fulton, N Y USA
Ship:
USS Liddle DE206
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Sunday, 11 April 2010 - 02:42:23pm
My uncle Richard Hinman was on the Liddle at the time the plane hit the ship. I would be interested in hearing from anyone that knew him. Thanks so much for this site, I found him in one of the photos you posted. Thanks again.
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David Parlante Email:
Location:
Sutton, Ma USA
Ship:
USS Swenning
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Monday, 22 March 2010 - 09:58:13pm
I enjoyed the pictures on your site. My fathe served on ths Swenning DE 397 during WWII. I see your grand father took a great picture of my father's ship. I will cherish it forever.
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John P. Seabrook Email:
Location:
Souderton, PA USA
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Monday, 15 March 2010 - 10:01:50pm
Ltjg Seabrook was my father. He didn't normally talk of his war experiences much - only to direct questions such as I asked as a young boy when I saw his purple heart and realized what it was. I remember his account of how the kamikaze removed most of the bridge and superstructure. He was one of the survivors who brought the ship into port using a field phone, com tube or other sort of improvised communication (I don't remember the exact term he used) to pass commands to the hands below working the engines and steering manually. Apparently, this ship also had some kind of R&R with a crew from a ship commissioned Roosevelt. I think for a baseball game on an atoll or something like that. I have a baseball cap with FDR on the crown that apparently came from that encounter. My father passed in 1997 and I didn't have any on-duty pictures of him - until now. I don't plan on publishing them but I did copy them to my computer - the one of him on watch is going up on the wall! Thank you for taking the time and trouble to create this page. Sincerely, John P. Seabrook
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Bm1 paul kerhner usn/ret Email:
Location:
reading, pa usa
Ship:
uss liddle APD60
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Monday, 11 January 2010 - 11:24:35am
i reported on board in 1960 as part of the precommision crew along with chief moorehead i was a Bm3 at that time when the cuban missile crises broke out and the liddle was excourting troops ships in case of invasion about 0200 the ship went to GQ we had s underwater contact and we droped and rolled off depth charges does any body remember that night lets talk
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Marcia A Perednia Email:
Location:
Norwood, MA USA
Ship:
USS Liddle
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 - 07:16:11pm
My Dad's passing was in 2005 and on the eve of what would have been my Dad's birthday, 08/19 I have the website access to the history of his service with the USNavy as a radio man during WWII at the time that the kamikaze plane hit the ship. It was a devastating occurance as I sit tearfully grabling at the very situation that forever changed the lives of not only those who lost their lives that day but those left to relive the frightful days of past wars. As my dad, Edward L Perednia always stated, "noone ever wins at a war"...I remember a few years ago visiting the website that showed a picture of all on ship, and naming all those onboard, with the highlighted names of those that lost their lives during that dreadful kamikaze plane hit. May World Peace be the drive that all for now and into the future strive to achieve for all kind.
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keith langley Email:
Location:
cheyenne, wy usa
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uss liddle
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Monday, 10 August 2009 - 10:45:08am
my father marvin langley was on the liddle and the helped decomission it and re commission the beverly w reid another apd.he was on the liddle as a bt from 1962 too 1969 includint the reid.i grew up on that ship with my brother and we ate aboard almost every weekend and had access to the ship.the cook that i grew to love was named thomas and he was such a great man.i want to thank him here if i can.i sure hope someone will write me that knew my dad.he is alive and living in texas now and is 84 years old.thank you for listening but the liddle and the reid are the two ships i really grew up on and went on dependants cruises on too.thank you so much for listening and i will tell my father marvin langley hello for anyone who remembers him.he spent 30 years in the navy and was on so many ships.these two the longest since he had to de commison and re commison the two.let me hear from you.keith
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George Richter QM2 Email:
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Monroe, NJ USA
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USS Liddle
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 - 01:26:44pm
I was aboard the Liddle from Jan thru July 1963. I was discharged while she was in the Sun Shipyard in Chester, PA. Hello to all of my shipmates.
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Dave Johnson Email:
Location:
Franklin, TN
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USS Liddle APD 60
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Sunday, 21 June 2009 - 10:13:06pm
Served aboard Liddle from July 1963 to May 1965. Held all engineering officer positions including engineering officer from Jan 1965 to May 1965.
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Richard Davis MM3 Email:
Location:
Canton, OH USA
Ship:
USS Liddle APD 60
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 - 05:45:39pm
I am looking for old shipmates. I served on the USS Liddle APD 60 from 1961 to 1964. I am still in touch with V. Posey and J. Francisco. I am also looking for Daniel E. Witt. Please contact me if you remember me.
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Geoff Wilson Email:
Location:
germantown, Tn USA
Ship:
USS Liddle (WW-II)
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Friday, 5 December 2008 - 03:46:47pm
For the information all WW-II Liddle hands. RADM Almon C. Wilson,MC, USN (Ret) died on 30 June 2003. RADM Wilson began his career as an Ensign aboard USS Liddle. He came aboard as a replacement officer in January 1945 and served until Liddle was decommissioned. He went to Medical School,returned to the USN as a Medical Officer for the Korean War then returned to the Reserves for his Residency. From mid-1959 until he retired in 1983 he served as a general surgeon and ultimately as the Deputy Surgeon Generalof the Navy. Without the experience he had on Liddle, he often stated, he would not have made the Navy his home. I served from 1970 to 1990 as a destroyer officer (USS Hoel and USS Fox) then as a 1630 (Intelligence Officer.) I entered the Navy because of the experience I had growing up in the Navy and because of USS Liddle's impact upon my father. Bravo Zulu (well done) to Jeff Deal for this website and the memorial to his grandfather. Carry on!
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Don Griffiths HMC(FMF) USN Ret Email:
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 - 07:50:28am
I am working on an hisotrical project of the 20 Ships named for Hospital Corpsmen. This ship was named in honor of Pharmacist's Mate Third Class William P. Liddle (1919–1942). He was killed in action, while serving with the 1st Marine Division, during the Battle of Guadalcanal on 19 August 1942. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. If anyone has a photograph of Petty Officer Liddle, I would like to have a copy that can be used in this history project.
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Stu Waters Email:
Location:
pasadena, Md ann arundle
Ship:
USS liddle Apd 60
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 - 09:01:47pm
I sorry to inform you that Mike Morris passed away on 10-36 08. we of the Liddle's crew wish to bless his wife Sheila in her time of need. Stu waters
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Morris Michael D. Email:
Location:
WEISER, IDAHO USAIwas
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USS LIDDLE APD60
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Thursday, 9 October 2008 - 07:28:16pm
I was aboard this ship from march 1965 tillSept 1967 In 1966 or 1967 comming out of Roseiveltt Roads Naval AIR Station there was a fire aboard a mine sweeper I would like to the name of that ship It sunk off of the coas
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Jim D. Brigance, Sr. Email:
Location:
La Marque, Texas
Ship:
USS Liddle APD-60
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Thursday, 7 August 2008 - 07:43:59pm
I served aboard Liddle as an apprentice gunner's mate in summer of 1958. On our training patrols thru the South Atlantic and Gulf I fondly recall the kindness of our skipper who arbitrarily changed course periodically to sail thru cooling rain squalls on hot days. I usually stood my watches as a bridge talker or lookout, so getting drenched by tropical rains certainly eased the long hot hours spent standing in the sun. Steam coming off the decks after a shower looked like a smoking hot griddle. Our gunnery practice generally involved firing at sleeves towed by WWII piston aircraft from NAS Pensacola.
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Scott Turnmyre Email:
Location:
Crumpler, NC USA
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Saturday, 2 August 2008 - 06:37:50am
My father, Ralph Turnmyre, was the radioman aboard the Liddle during her time in New Orleans. I have heard many stories about life aboard the Liddle and about some of her missions while there. I have a great photo of the Liddle sailing out of Havana Harbor that is hanging in my living room.
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Jack Amerman Email:
Location:
Houston, Tx USA
Ship:
USS Liddle
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 - 06:59:04pm
Was never in the Navy but as a Sea Scout was invited on a reserve training cruise summer of 1958 on USS Liddle from Houston to New Orleans. I still have a 5" shell casing I won in the lottery for it along with a few 40mms. One of the greatest memories of my life around the water. My best wishes and prayers for the men who served aboard her and to their loved ones. Jack Amerman, Jr. Houston, Tx.
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Bruce Teerlink Email:
Location:
Jacksonville, FL USA
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US Navy Retired
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 - 04:18:15pm
My Uncle Delbert Sternberg served aboard the USS Liddle in WWII. He gave my mother his sister a bracelet he made from the skin of the Japanese plane that hit the ship. I unfortunately can not find it. My uncle died when I was 9 years old but it was because of him that I made a career of the Navy. To all who have served and all that arer serving THANK YOU. Bruce W. Teerlink AXC USN/Ret.
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Elmer Dee Clark Email:
Location:
Caarlsbad, Ca.
Ship:
USS Flusser DD368
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Monday, 25 February 2008 - 03:29:15pm
Joined navy Jan. 1939. Served on USS Flusser CMM until Sept. 1945. Ormoc Bay was one of the toughist battles of WW2. The Japanese came at us , from land air and sea, from daylight until dark. Also lost the USS Mahan. I'm 89 would love to hear from anyone.
