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USS Liddle (APD-60)
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 USS Liddle (DE-206) (1943 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - India - Uniform
 NFIU
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 7 December 1944) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba)
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Fourth Row - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba, 1-Dominican Republic) - Philippine Liberation Medal (1)
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (38-KIA 7 December 1944)
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 8 June 1943, as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston S.C.
  • Launched, 9 August 1943
  • Commissioned USS Liddle (DE-206), 6 December 1943, LCDR. R. M. Hinckley, Jr., in command
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at New York
  • Redesignated (APD-60), 5 July 1944
  • During World War II USS Liddle (APD-60) was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Transportation Division 103 and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 24 and 29 November 1944
    Ormoc Bay landing, 7 December 1944     		Borneo operation
    Burnei Bay operation, 10 June 1945
    Balikpapan operation, 1 July 1945

  • Decommissioned 18 June 1946 at Green Cove Springs FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Recommissioned 27 October 1950 at Green Cove Springs
  • Assigned to Reserve Training at New Orleans, 21 March 1958
  • Decommissioned, 2 February 1959
  • Recommissioned, 29 November 1961
  • Decommissioned, 18 March 1967 at Norfolk, VA.
    From her homeport at the Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, at Norfolk,VA. Liddle was ordered to Orange, TX. to retrieve USS Beverly W. Reid (APD-119) from the Reserve Fleet. Beverly W. Reid was towed back to Norfolk where Liddle's crew decommission her and simultaneously reactivated Beverly W. Reid. Upon the decommissioning of Liddle on 18 March 1967 her former crew manned and recommissioned Beverly W. Reid the same day.
    Robert Narvaez RD2 (Diver) USN USS Liddle and USS Beverly W. Reid
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 5 April 1967
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 25 June 1967, to North American Smelting Co.
  • USS Liddle (APD-60) earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306' (oa)
    Beam 36' 10"
    Draft 13' 6" (max)
    Speed 24 kts.
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 186
    Troop Capacity 162
    Boats four LCVP landing craft
    Armament
    one 5"/38 MK30 dual purpose gun mount
    six twin 40mm MK1 AA gun mounts
    six single 20mm Mk4 AA gun mounts
    two MK9 depth charge release tracks
    Propulsion two GE turbines, (turbo-electric drive), two boilers two shafts, 12,000 shp
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    Liddle 137k USS Liddle (APD-60) detailed profile drawing. ©John Robert Barrett
    Liddle 105k USS Liddle (APD-60) moored pierside, at a US Navy Drydock, Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA., date unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Nick Tiberio
    Liddle 82k USS Liddle (APD-60) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy
    in World War II
    Liddle 133k USS Liddle (APD-60) underway, date and location unknown. Oliver W Kruger, YN3, USN, USS Liddle, February 1954 to June 1955
    Liddle 68k USS Liddle (APD-60) and the soon to be recommissioned USS Beverly W. Reid (APD-119) moored pierside at pier 11, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, VA., circa November 1966. Robert Narvaez
    View the USS Liddle (APD-60)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Liddle (DE-206) page at Navsource
    Photographs from the USS Liddle DE-206/APD-60
    The Battle of Ormoc Bay Association
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
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