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USS Childs (AVP-14)
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Childs - LT. Earle Wayne Freed Childs USN (USNA 1915)
After graduation from the Naval Academy ENS. Childs was assigned to the USS Culgoa,
a refrigerated supply ship. He was next assigned USS Celtic, another refrigerated supply ship.
He then In June 1916 he reported aboard the battleship USS Montana for duty.
During World War I LT. Childs served in the submarine USS L-2.
While serving as an observer on the British submarine HMS H5, Lieutenant Childs was lost when H5 sank with all hands after a collision with a merchantman
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USS Childs (AVP-14) underway, circa late 1930's, location unknown. |
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USS Childs (AVP-14) underway, circa late 1930's, location unknown. |
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USS Childs (AVP-14) at anchor, 15 April 1939 in Narragansett Bay.
Photo Caption reads;
"WAR BIRDS GATHER
TWO NAVY
PATROL BOMBERS, PART OF THE FORCES WHICH WILL "DEFEND" THE INDUSTRIAL EAST AGAINST A THEORETICAL ATTACK IN WAR GAMES TO START NEXT WEEK, LAND ON THE WATERS OF
NARRAGANSETT BAY OFF THE RHODE ISLAND COAST APRIL 15. THE DESTROYER CHILDS (BACKGROUND) WILL ACT AS AN AIRCRAFT GUARD DURING MANEUVERS."
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO
4-15-39 9:15PES LKM JO. |
From the Michael Strout collection of AP photos, courtesy Jonathan Eno |
USS Childs (AVD-1)
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Starboard side profile of the Seaplane Tender Destroyer USS Childs (AVD-1), 1942 |
Scanned from "Town Class Destroyers: A Critical Assessment". By John Henshaw. Pub. by The Crowood Press Ltd., Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2HR. ISBN 978 1 78500 401 8.
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USS Childs (AVD-1) underway alongside USS
Matanikau (CVE-101), 15 December 1944. |
"US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-376655.
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USS Childs (AVD-1) moored pierside at Fremantle, Western Australia, 16 August 1943.
The small cabin cruiser in the foreground is the Royal Australian Navy patrol boat P-18.
A US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-82153. |
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USS Childs (AVD-1) underway circa late-1944 after overhaul on the west coast.
US National Archives, Photo No. 19-N-74863 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Childs (AVD-1) underway, 14 November 1944, location unknown. |
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