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20k | Hugh Pratt Kidder was born in Waukon, Iowa, 13 December 1897, the son of Harley Perry Kidder & Ada Kate Pratt. He graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis in 1914. He worked in the freight and auditing department of the Soo Line railroad until his enlistment as a private in the marines May, 1917. In France he was promoted from private to corporal, from corporal to sergeant, and from sergeant to 2nd Lieutenant. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm and star during World War I for courage and endurance while carrying orders to advanced positions under violent machine gun fire during a period of nine days. Second Lieutenant Kidder was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross while serving with the 78th Company, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Blanc Mont, France, 02-03 October 1918. On the morning of 2 October Second Lieutenant Kidder led a small patrol into enemy trenches and captured two strong machine-gun positions which were menacing his company. On 3 October with his platoon, Second Lieutenant Kidder attacked and captured four machine-gun nests, and many prisoners, after which he went to the aid of two of his wounded men. While attempting to better his position in the face of heavy machine-gun and artillery fire he was killed. | Robert M. Cieri / David Wright |
USS Kidder (DD-319)
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133k | U.S. Navy destroyers fitting out, At the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Union Plant, Potrero Works, San Francisco, California, on 1 April 1920. Ships present are (from left to right): Kidder (Destroyer # 319); Selfridge (Destroyer # 320); Chase (Destroyer # 323); Mervine (Destroyer # 322); Marcus (Destroyer # 321); LaVallette (Destroyer # 315); and Yarborough (Destroyer # 314). Photograph from the Collections of the U.S. National Archives. Photo #: 19-LC-38-L-3. | Robert Hurst |
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96k | USS Kidder underway, off Pacific Coast outside San Diego Harbor. Photo by renowned naval photographer O.W. Waterman, after relocating his studio to San Diego [722 Broadway] from East Coast, sometime around 1919. | Jim Geldert |
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300k | Circa 1920s, location unknown. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 52058 (cropped) | Daniel Dunham/Robert Hurst |
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200k | USS Kidder (DD 319) in San Francisco Bay in 1921. Photo from the collection of Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. | David Buell/Darryl Baker |
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75k | San Diego, CA circa 1920's. USS Shirk (DD-318), USS Kidder (DD-319), USS La Vallette (DD-315), USS Sloat (DD-316), USS Yarborough (DD-314) and USS Wood (DD-317). Naval Historical Center photo NH 69509. | Daniel Dunham |
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53k | Circa early 1920's. The four destroyers nearest the camera at the left are the USS La Vallette (DD-315), USS Wood (DD-317), USS Yarborough (DD-314) and USS Kidder (DD-319). Naval Historical Center photo NH 71034. | Daniel Dunham |
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337k | Aerial view of six destroyers in Mare Island's dry dock #2 between August 13 - 25, 1922. The shipyard's records indicate that the six destroyers were in hull number order as: USS Yarborough (DD 314), USS La Vallette (DD 315), USS Sloat (DD 316), USS Wood (DD 317), USS Shirk (DD 318) and USS Kidder (DD 319). | Darryl Baker |
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62k | USS Beaver (AS-5) leads the USS Kidder (DD-319) and USS MacDonough (DD-331) out to sea through the Golden Gate April 15 1925. Naval Historical Center photo NH 72402. | Daniel Dunham |
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82k | Stripped and awaiting scrapping at Alameda, CA, March 22 1931. Naval Historical Center photo NH 73003. | Daniel Dunham |
