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The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Piedmont (AD 17). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 352 crew members registered for the USS Piedmont (AD 17).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1956 | 1957 – 1965 | 1966 – 1968 | 1969 – 1971 | 1972 – 1974 | 1975 – 1976 | 1977 – 1980 | 1981 – now
Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
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CULP, JERRY | BTFN TO BT2 | Nov 30, 1079 – Oct 30, 1982 | BOILER REPAIR | |
Bescan, Leonard (Len) | SAO 3 | 1943 – Mar 1946 | ||
Schultz, Robert | TM3c | Mar 11, 1943 – Feb 27, 1946 | armory | |
O'Donnell, PhIIp | CPO | Apr 30, 1943 – Sep 23, 1946 | E | Plankowner |
Debiasio, Louis | 2nd class PO | Nov 1943 – Sep 1945 | 7 th | Ran the horizontal and bulard boring mills. Loader on the 20 mil. anti aircraft gun |
Hinson, William "bill" | M2 | Dec 1, 1943 – Mar 23, 1946 | repair force | worked in the blacksmith shop helped with repairs on several ships threw out the war. |
Laskey, "buck" | MUS.2/C | Dec 8, 1943 – Nov 8, 1945 | Served as "plank owner" from the time I arrived at Tampa, Fl. in December 1943 until I left the Piedmont at Yokuska Naval Station, November 8, 1945. Was part of the ship's band during that period. Discharged 1/26/1946, Norman OK NAS | |
Julian, James (Jim( | EM I/C | Dec 27, 1943 – Oct 27, 1945 | 7 (Repair) | Plankowner.We repaired and serviced hundreds of Destroyers during WW ll at Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Manus in the Admiralties,Ulithi Atoll, again at Eniwetok and fiinally at Yokosuka in Tokyo Bay with the 3rd Fleet Sept, 2, 1945 at war's en |
Petry, Albert | Fireman 1st Class | Jan 1944 – Mar 18, 1946 | Boiler Room | Great Lakes Training Center 1063 Tampa, Florida Brother Charlie Petry, also in the Navy, met me on board the Piedmont in the Admiralty Islands |
Newbauer, William (Bill, Willie) | fireman first class | 1945 – 1946 | refrigeration | I was assigned to the refrigeration shop. |
Mathews, Marion | PETTY OFFICER 3 | Apr 1945 – Nov 1947 | Machinest/Refrigeration | Please let me hear from you. Contact me at my son's e-mail |
Whaley, Gene | SK3 | 1946 – 1948 | 4TH | Looking for Robert F. Mooney we were shipmates |
Price, Billie | MM2/C | 1947 – 1949 | A | Steam heat and hydraulics, fire and flushing systems and high-pressure air compressors. |
Allison, Robert | SEAMAN FIRST CLASS | Jan 1947 – Jan 1951 | ||
Kempski, Robert (Bob) | Lt. JG | Sep 1, 1948 – Aug 16, 1951 | Dental | Great Lakes Navel Base - training. Navel Base San Diego till deployment in 1948 aboard the USS Piedmont. Served as a sick call dentist till 1951 in Sasebo, Inchon. Looking for old shipmates of my grandfather. |
Vecchio, Joseph | MR 2 | Mar 1, 1949 – Jul 12, 1952 | 4th Division | |
Davis, James {jimmie ] | Ret-E8 | Apr 12, 1949 – Oct 20, 1952 | ENG on the captians GIG | Boarded {DOC} the Piedmont in april of 49 left him in 52 Made the invasion on Inchon.in june of 50.spent the better part of the next 2yrs in Keora. |
Riedell, John | SA | Oct 29, 1949 – Feb 6, 1950 | Executive Officer's Office | The ship was moored in San Diego Harbor and I worked in the Executive Officer's Office. After a few months, I was transferred to Great Lakes, to attend the naval journalist school, following which I was sent to CinCPac PIO, Hawaii. |
Perry, James Joseph | MEFN | 1950 – 1951 | Unknown | Looking for any living shipmates of my grandfather. |
Hooker, Wallace | rd3 | Jan 1, 1950 – Jan 1, 1954 | operations | served from 1950 t0 1954. about half the time was in japan Friends were George Johnson. James Ely. Richard Parfitt and Joseph Felt. |
Spearman, James | SN | Oct 1950 – Apr 1952 | 1st | Served in 1st Div. Great duty ship |
Crouch, Bob R Or "billy Jean" | SEAMAN | 1951 – 1955 | 2ND | |
Campbell, George | HMC Third class | Jan 1951 – Aug 1953 | Medical division | |
Kastens, William (Bill) | ET2 | Mar 8, 1951 – Sep 22, 1954 | Repair Gang | San Diego Boot Camp Dec.1950 2nd Div. Deck Force March 1951 ET School Treasure Island, CA 1952 ET Repair Div. 1953-54 Discharged Long Beach, CA Oct. 1954 |
Chandler, Bob | SMQM1/c | Jul 1, 1951 – Sep 15, 1952 | Signal/Quartermaster | If there is anyone still alive from this time send me a line. |
Long, Cecil | FT3 | Sep 15, 1951 – May 1954 | 6th | I caught up with the Piedmont in Sept 1951 in Sasebo harbor after just completing Fire Control school in San Diego. On the Piedmont I was assigned to the Fire Control shop. I got to make one more trip to Japan in 1953 but left her in April of 195 |
Villagomez, Augustine | CSSN | Dec 1951 – Aug 1954 | S1 | I am looking for my good friend Willie Montoya. |
Isom, Aaron / Mr. Peabody | Apr 16, 1953 – Aug 13, 1956 | I am looking for old shipmates , would like to hear from anyone who might remember me or has any old photos of the ship and shipmates joisom45@bellsouth.net ,is my daughters email , and she will forward all mail to me. Thanks. | ||
Devries, Robert | TM3 | 1954 – | Armory | |
Best, Mike | SMSN | Dec 1954 – Apr 1956 | OPERATIONS | CAME ABOARD DOC AFTER BOOT LEAVE, OJT FOR SIGNALMAN. DID THE 55 WESTPAC CRUISE WITH SASEBO AS A MAIN PORT. EXPERIENCED A NASTY TYPHOON WHILE ANCHORED IN SASEBO. HOPE TO FIND 55 CRUISE BOOK OR COPY TO BUY. GOD BLESS ALL WHO SERVED. |
Brass, Sanford | IM3 | 1955 – 1957 | Maintenance and Repair | Favorite memory sailing from Seattle to SanDiego |
Best, Mike Feathers | SMSN | Jan 1955 – Apr 1956 | OPERATIONS, SIGNALMAN / QUARTERMASTER | GREAT LIFE ABOARD THE DOC. MY FIRST WESTPAC CRUISE TOOK US TO PEARL, SUBIC BAY, HONG KONG, SASEBO, AND A COUPLE OF OTHER EXOTIC PORTS OF CALL. ROAD OUT TYPHOON WHILE ANCHORED IN SASEBO. SPENT LIBERTY AT THE PARAMOUNT BAR, BEHIND THE PARK. |
Waites, Kyle | ET2 | Apr 1955 – Apr 1957 | R4 | |
Marino Sr., Don | EM 3rd class PO | Jun 1955 – Dec 1956 | Ships Company Electric Shop | Enjoyed my time on the Piedmont. Met a lot of great guys and saw parts of the world I probably never would have. Would love to find some of my old shipmates. |
Cozart, Francis (Buddy) | SEAMAN | Aug 1955 – Feb 1959 | ||
Foster, Harold | mr 2 | Sep 1955 – Jun 1958 | r 2 | got transfered to u s s laws d d 5 5 8 didn't extend for the 3rd westpac cruise |
Johnson, Arthur | Fn | Dec 2, 1955 – Feb 1, 1956 | Boiler tender | Looking elden Lewis |
Grant, Ted | YN3 | Jan 5, 1956 – Sep 15, 1957 | Captains Office | Was Captain's Yeoman. One Cruise to the Pacific, went thru a Typhoon on the way to Japan. Crossed the equter and was initiated a Shell Back. |
Freyermuth, Charles | CS3 | Mar 1956 – Aug 1957 | Commensary | I think about my time aboard this ship alot. I do a lot of day dreaming. I wish I could find some of the people that served aboard the ship during this same time period. |
Kronschnabel, Peter | SFP-2 | May 1956 – Jan 1959 | R-1 | Good duty. Learned my trade well from excellent leaders |
Armistead, Jerry | SKSN-SK2 | Nov 5, 1956 – Aug 12, 1960 | Supply S-1 | Made 3 wonderful deployments to WESPAC Crossed the Equator Discharged Aug 80 |
Hopkins, Warren | QM3 | Dec 4, 1956 – Feb 1, 1959 | Operations | Came about Piedmont as a SA. When I was promoted to SN I transferred to operations. I trained as a signalman but when the opportunity to take the test for QM3 I took it. Served with the COMCRUDESPAC signal staff. |
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