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| 46k | John Henry Quick, born 20 June 1870 at Charlestown, W. Va., enlisted in the Marine Corps 10 August 1892. He was awarded the Medal of Honor "for gallantry in action" in signalling the gunfire support vessel Dolphin while exposed to heavy enemy fire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 14 June 1898. Remaining in the Marine Corps after the Spanish-American War, he served on expeditionary duty in Mexico (21 April-23 November 1914) and with the A.E.F. in World War I. During the Belleau Wood campaign he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross for assisting in the delivery of ammunition, over a road swept by enemy artillery, to Boureches. Retiring 20 November 1918, Sgt. Major Quick was recalled, at his own request, for the period 26 July–15 September 1920. He died at St. Louis, Mo., 9 September 1922. Photo from the USMC History Division. | Bill Gonyo | |
| USS Quick (DD-490) |
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| 104k | Etching by John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953) of USS Radford (DD-446), USS Quick (DD-490) and USS Mervine (DD-489) in Wet Basin at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, South Kearney, NJ during 1942. | Stephen Fixx | |
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705k | Quick launching at Kearny, NJ, 03 May 1942. | Dave Wright | |
| 15k | 1942 camo scheme for Atlantic service. | George Jordan | |
| 59k | July 15, 1942, the crew at special sea detail near Brooklyn Navy Yard. | George Jordan | |
| 82k | New York Navy Yard, July 15 1942. | Pieter Bakels | |
| 77k | USS Quick (DD-490) photographed on 15 July 1942 off New York. She displays an inferior interpretation of the US Navy Measure 12 modified scheme with the Ocean Grey tone taken down to the boot topping (USN courtesy of Floating Drydock). Photo and text taken from Naval Camouflage 1914-1945, by David Williams. | Robert Hurst | |
| 73k | USS Quick (DD-490) underway, wearing camouflage 32/3d, in the Atlantic. This photo was marked as received on 18 March 1945, so was probably taken in February 1945. National Archives photo 80-G-313940, courtesy of C. Lee Johnson, usndazzle.com. | Mike Green | |
LCDR Roger Brown Nickerson Jul 3 1942 - Mar 21 1943 LCDR Philip Winslow Cann Mar 21 1943 - Jan 11 1945 (As DMS-32) LCDR Edward Jerome Foote Jan 11 1945 - 1946 LCDR Guy Edward Hearn Jr. 1946 - 1947 CDR Craig C. Angel 1947 - 1948 CDR William Alford Gregg IV 1948 - May 28 1949
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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