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  The USS MADDOX DD-731
The second MADDOX (DD-622) was one of the trim 1650 ton LIVERMORE (DD-423) class.
MADDOX was again deployed in the Western Pacific from 13 March 1964 to 2 October 1964.
MADDOX was on station in the South China Sea for a cumulative total of 82 days during the summer of 1964.
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Given command of MCCORMICK (DD-223) on 8 December 1941, he was detached on 3 October to supervise the outfitting of MADDOX (DD-622) and he assumed command of that destroyer at her commissioning on 3 October 1942.
He was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct as commanding officer of MADDOX when she attacked and probably sank an enemy submarine on 6 May 1943.
Sarsfield was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and cited for extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of MADDOX during the invasion of Sicily on 10 July 1943.
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 Maddox II dd 662
The second Maddox (DD-622) was laid down 7 May 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Rearny, N.J. launched 15 September 1942; sponsored by Mrs.
On 8 June 1943, Maddox departed Norfolk for Oran, Algeria, where she became a unit of TF 81, the assault force for the Sicillan invasion.
Maddox' was struck from the Navy list 19 August 1943.
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 USS Maddox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Maddox (DD-168), christened in 1918, the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy, then Soviet Navy, and finallly given back to the Royal Navy
USS Maddox (DD-622), christened in 1942 and sunk the next year by a German dive bomber.
After a short career in World War II and participation in the Korean War, this ship was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to the start of the Vietnam War.
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 The USS Maddox
In 1836, William Maddox had served in the war with the Creeks and Seminole Indians as First Lieutenant, commanding a company of volunteers under General Jessup and on 14 October 1837 was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps from the State of Maryland.
The Maddox was assigned to the Third Fleet and she was badly damaged off Okinawa in 1944 by a bomb from a Japanese Kamikaze plane.
Maddox was once again deployed in the Western Pacific from 13 March 1964 until 2 October 1964, assigned to escort duty.
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 Family History
Maddox, son of George William and Laura Estella (Robbins) Maddox is in possession of a large plate made by the Maddock China Company.
Samuel (Madoc) Maddox was born in Wales and he was the first to travel from Wales to America, landing in St. Marys County, Maryland in 1665, we do not know the name of the ship that he arrived on, but his friend, Thomas Notley also came on the same ship with Samuel.
Notley Maddox was the first-born son of Samuel (Madoc) Maddox and Ann (Anne) Notley and he was born at the Green Springs Farm, St. Marys County, Maryland.
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 USS MADDOX ASSOCIATION
To the men of the USS Maddox who gave their lives in defense of the United States of America.
Maddox and Moore (DD-747) were among a number of tin cans visiting Pearl Harbor in 1961, when Dorman took these pictures right outside his barracks.
USS Maddox, Naval Art - Note: As so many of you have pointed out, this is not USS Maddox, but a Fram destroyer.
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 The USS Maddox (DD-622)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Cruising at an average speed of 12 knots, the ship had a range of 6,500 nautical miles.
told her that the Maddox was grossly overloaded, carrying extra ammunition for the cruisers
and chronicles of the USS Maddox Destroyer Association.
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 WWW-Tipp der Woche 32/2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Suddently, four F-8 Crusaders screamed over MADDOX at 400 knots and made for the enemy vessels, by now heading away from the destroyer and miles north of her.
Whether or not the USS Maddox was in international waters remains a mystery for the U.S. claimed that the USS Maddox was within ten or less miles of offshore islands five times between 31 Jul 64 and the first Tonkin Gulf incident on 2 Aug 64.
On August 4, 1964, Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy reported a second attack, this one occurring within 17 hours of 34-Alpha raids on North Vietnamese facilities at Cap Vinh Son and Cua Ron.
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 Clarence L. Riney
During Operation 'Husky' (the invasion of Sicily) the American destroyer Maddox was singled out by a lone Stuka dive-bomber when near Gela.
The enemy bomb may not have set off "sympathetic" explosions of Maddox' ordnance but one observation, that depth charges physically separated from their deck hold down restraints rolled off or fell off, is plausible.
In this two minutes of eternity, 202 were lost, another indication that Maddox had no control of her fate after the near miss.
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The first USS Maddox was an Old Wickles Class Destroyer laid down 20 July 1918 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Mass.
The second destroyer named Maddox was laid down 7 May 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Rearny, New Jersey and launched 15 September 1942 This one was sponsored by Mrs.
The third destroyer to bear the Maddox name was laid down 28 October 1943 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine and launched 19 March 1944.
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 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer USS Maddox (ii) of the Bristol class
During the invasion of Sicily, USS Maddox (Lt.Cdr.
The magazine demolished her stern and then the Maddox rolled over and sank in two minutes.
In 1998, the pilot of the JU-88 who sank the Maddox was invited to attend their survivors reunion, in which the German ex-pilot was delighted to go to.
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 USS Nelson (DD-623) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nelson fired sporadically at the planes throughout the day.
At 1230 she received word that Maddox (DD-622) had been sunk.
Enemy aircraft continued the attack the next day, delivering a high level bombing attack on the Nelson's area and obtaining a direct hit on the liberty ship Robert Rowan.
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 USN Ships -- by Hull Number: DD -- Destroyers, numbered from DD 600 through DD 799
DD -- Destroyers, numbered from DD 600 through DD 799.
This page provides the hull numbers of all U.S. Navy destroyers numbered in the DD series from 600 through 799, with links to those ships with photos available in the Online Library.
To the best of our knowledge, the pictures provided in the "Online Library of Selected Images" are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.
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 USS Maddox - meaning of word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
See USS Maddox (DD-168) *The second, DD-622, was christened in 1942.
See USS Maddox (DD-622) *The third, DD-731, was christened in 1944.
She had a short career in World War II, and participated in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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 A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Operating with a squadron of torpedo boats, she patrolled the harbor of Empedocle hoping to force German E-boats and Italian MAS boats out into the open for a fight.
At 0245 on 10 July as the first troops made their way ashore, she and her fellow destroyers NELSON (DD-623), MURPHY (DD-603), GLENNON (DD-620), JEFFERS (DD-621), MADDOX (DD-622), BUTLER (DD-636), GHERARDI (DD-637), HERNDON (DD-638), SHUBRICK (DD-639), and MCLANAHAN (DD-615) provided covering fire, extinguishing enemy searchlights and shore batteries.
For the next eleven days the "Mighty O" continued her shore bombardment interspersed with periods of convoying ships in and out of the area, chasing submarines, or fighting off air attacks.
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 USS Theadore E. Chandler DD 717
On 19 June she departed the west coast with ASW Group 1 bounl for what appeared to be a normal peacetime deployment to the western Pacific.
PIRAZ duty with Long Beach (CLGN-9), a visit to Singapore, and the loss of a gunfire spotting drone to enemy antiaircraft fire near the mouth of the Song Gian~ River highlighted that combat cruise.
Ozbourn (DD 846) relieved Theodore E. Chandler on 28 June, and she shaped a course for Japan and preparations for the return voyage to the United States.
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 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Bristol class Destroyers
USS Bristol (i) (DD 453) (lost 13 Oct, 1943)
USS Duncan (i) (DD 485) (lost 12 Oct, 1942)
USS Maddox (ii) (DD 622) (lost 10 Jul, 1943)
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The oiler continued to be a familiar sight in the Pacific.
According to the Navy’s official history of the ship, the Ashtabula conducted one of the first underway replenishments during the Vietnam War when it refueled the destroyer Maddox (DD 622) hours after the Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
In mid-1967, the oiler was put through a $15 million rebuilding process called jumboization.
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 TORCH-- THE INVASION OF FRENCH NORTH AFRICA and SICILY
  2 French DD's were beached outside the harbor-one was the "Cassard Class" and the other the "Tigre Class."  The cruiser, PRIMAUGET, who we fought earlier, was badly hit and anchored inside the outer breakwater.
  However one DD of the "Magador Class" was badly hit.
The PARKER, MADDOX, MERVINE were also moored alongside.
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 Welcome to the United States Ship Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. DD850
On 19 June she departed the west coast with ASW Group 1 bound for what appeared to be a normal peacetime deployment to the western Pacific.
However, on 2 August, North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly made a torpedo attack upon Maddox (DD-622) while she cruised international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Theodore E. Chandler received orders to join the ASW screen of American carriers dispatched to deliver retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese torpedo boat bases.
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DESTROYERS (DD) USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) sunk after being bombed by Japanese aircraft off Tagoma Point, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7 April 1943.
USS Luce (DD-522) sunk after being hit by two Kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 3 May 1945.
USS Mahan (DD-364) sunk after being hit by three Kamikaze aircraft in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, 7 December 1944.
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 combatindex.com - US Sea Systems: DD 622 (MADDOX)
Please contact webmaster if you have (official) relevant information and/or a high resolution digital image of the Coat of Arms.
Please contact webmaster if you have (official) relevant information.
The second Maddox (DD-622) was laid down 7 May 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; launched 15 September 1942; sponsored by Mrs.
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 Whatever Happened?
In June 1997, while under tow, she sank off the coast near Durban, South Africa.
622), was presumed dead on 7-11-43, but not before
Later reclassified as a DDG and scheduled for decommissioning in December 2003.
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 USS MADDOX
Two Views of the First Ship to Bear the Name, USS Maddox DD-168
Two Views of the Second Ship to Bear the Name, USS Maddox DD-622
Several Views of the Third Ship to Bear the Name, USS Maddox DD-731
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 Tulare Advance Register - www.tulareadvanceregister.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Classmates can submit contact information to ohs1996alumni@yahoo.com or call 304-3634.
The USS Maddox Destroyer Association (DD-168, DD-622 and DD-731) will hold a reunion on June 21-25 in Portland, Ore. For more information, contact Ken Chestnut at (619) 582-1238 or by e-mail to maddoxman@cox.net
Corcoran High School class of 1976 invites Corcoran High classes of 1974 and 1975 to join in a 30-year class reunion to be held on Aug. 5 at the Lampliter Inn in Visalia.
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 Tyler Morning Telegraph - EAST TEXAS SAILORS, AIRMAN COMPLETE BASIC TRAINING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Baker is a 1989 graduate of Keller High School.
USS Maddox Destroyer Association Reunion (DD-168, DD-622 and DD-731) will be held June 21-25 at Portland, Ore. Contact Ken Chestnut, 6844 Clara Lee Ave., San Diego, Calif., 92120 (619) 582-1238 or e-mail maddoxman@cox.net.
The Association of Sons and Daughters of WWII Veterans will lead a group to England and France during April to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of historical events, D-Day landings, Battle for Normandy and the drive through France to Bastogne.
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 More Maritime Disasters of WWII 1943
Of the 149 souls on board, only 5 survived.
During Operation ‘Husky’ (the invasion of Sicily) the American two stack destroyer Maddox, on antisubmarine duty 15 miles off Gela Point, Sicily, was singled out by a lone JU-88 bomber of KG-54 Group.
Two 250 pound bombs were dropped, the second struck the No 5 gun turret.
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