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    USS J. William Ditter (DD-751/DM-31) was a Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer in the United States Navy. She was named for Congressman J. William...
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    William Ditter Jr. was a federal judge, serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. USS J. William Ditter (DM-31)...
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    Fardy – 7 May William A. Foster – 2 May Harold Gonsalves – 15 April William D. Halyburton Jr. – 10 May Dale M. Hansen – 7 May Louis J. Hauge Jr. – 14...
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  • USS Hunt (DD-674) USS Hyman (DD-732) HMS Indefatigable (R10) USS Ingraham (DD-694) USS Intrepid (CV-11) USS Isherwood (DD-520) USS J. William Ditter (DM-31)...
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    following week the Bauer escorted her destroyer sister-ship, the USS J. William Ditter back to safety in the nearby Kerama Retto islands. (about 20 miles...
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    (1859) USS J. William Ditter (DD-751/DM-31/MMD-31) USS J. William Middendorf (DDG-138) USS Jacamar (AMc-47, AMCU-25) USS Jacana (AMS-193/MSC-193) USS Jaccard...
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    Tracy, J. William Ditter 3 motor gunboats (steel hull): PGM-9, PGM-10, PGM-11 Reserve Sweep Group (Task Group 52.7) Cmdrs. E.D. McEathron and J.W. Wyckoff...
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  • entrance. Although William Sharon was abandoned, salvage vessel USS Grapple (ARS-7) later tows Sharon to San Pedro Bay for repairs. USS YMS-327 was damaged...
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    USS Tolman (MMD-28) USS Henry A. Wiley (MMD-29) USS Shea (MMD-30) USS J. William Ditter (MMD-31) USS Lindsey (MMD-32) USS Gwin (MMD-33) Catskill class USS Terror (MMF-5)...
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    in engaging the intruders. On 6 June, Thomas E. Fraser relieved USS J. William Ditter, the badly battered target of a mass kamikaze attack, on picket...
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    destroyer types. As radar pickets at Okinawa, Aaron Ward, Lindsey, and J. William Ditter were damaged by kamikazes, and Shea by a Baka bomb. Five of the class...
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    Museum ships USS Cassin Young (DD-793) - Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown, MA USS Charrette (DD-581) - Thessaloniki, Greece USS Edson (DD-946)...
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    USS William Ward Burrows was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II. The ship was the former Grace Steamship Company...
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    pursuits in 1819. Jones died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The destroyer USS William Jones (DD-308) was named in his honor. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc...
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    ISBN 0-9506323-9-2. "U.S.S. Abbot (DD 184), 1919-1940". U.S.S. Abbot. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012. Colledge, J. J.; Warlow...
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    air attack in which destroyer minelayers Harry F. Bauer (DM-26) and J. William Ditter (DM-31) shot down six Japanese aircraft, despite serious damage to...
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    suicide planes, Van Valkenburgh headed out to report and relieve J. William Ditter on radar picket station 14 (RP-14), as support ship to Wickes. The...
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    Died: J. William Ditter, 55, U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania since 1933, was killed in a plane crash along with Lieutenant Commander J.J. Manshure...
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  • Pennsylvania John William Ditter Jr., United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Susan J. Dlott:...
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    Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (died 2008) October 19 John William Ditter, Jr., federal judge (died 2019) George Nader, actor (died 2002) October...
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    of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1751) October 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739) November 22 – Judith van Dorth...
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  • at Bastia, Corsica, and Leghorn and Pisa, Italy. September 21 – John William Ditter, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing...
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    destroyer minelayers (Allen M. Sumner) Henry A. Wiley (DM-29) ... J. William Ditter (DM-31) 11 of 98 Gearing-class Vogelgesang (DD-862) ... Forrest Royal (DD-872)...
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    World War II, and was posted to both Iceland with the Atlantic Fleet and the USS New Mexico with the United States Pacific Fleet. He was among US forces that...
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    1868. He was commissioned a Lieutenant and circumnavigated the globe on the USS Colorado. He was a member of the second U.S. party to be granted an audience...
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  •  1. "James William Stokes". New York Times. July 7, 1901. p. 5. "Congressman R.K. Polk Dead". Chicago Tribune. March 6, 1902. p. 5. "A.J. Cummings Dead"...
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