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Last Rank
Fireman Apprentice
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Last Primary NEC
FN-0000-Fireman
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Last Rating/NEC Group
Fireman
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Primary Unit
1945-1945, USS Kidd (DD-661)
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Service Years
1944 - 1945
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Order of the Golden Dragon
Neptune Subpoena
Panama Canal
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Personal Details
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Home State
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Year of Birth
1927 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Bersley H. Thomas, Jr. (Tom), SMCS
to remember
Heaton, Fredric B., FA.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
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Last Address
Castleberry
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Casualty Date
Apr 11, 1945 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died |
Reason
Other Explosive Device |
Location
Okinawa |
Conflict
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Okinawa Gunto Operation |
Location of Interment
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Last Known Activity
USS Kidd (DD-661)
Kidd sailed 19 February 1945, to join Task Force 58 (TF 58) for the invasion of Okinawa. Trained and battlewise, Kidd played a key role during the first days of the Okinawa campaign, screening battleships, bombarding key targets ashore, rescuing downed pilots, sinking floating mines, providing early warning of raids, guarding heavily damaged Franklin (CV-13), and shooting down kamikazes.
While on picket station 11 April 1945, Kidd and her division mates, USS Black, USS Bullard, and USS Chauncey, with the help of Combat Air Patrol, repelled three air raids. That afternoon a single enemy plane crashed into Kidd, killing 38 men and wounding 55. As the destroyer headed south to rejoin the task group, her effective fire drove off enemy planes trying to finish her.
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