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Interesting tidbits of Biddle History:

• The Biddle Crest
• Captain Nicholas Biddle (1750 - 1778)
• Other Ships Named Biddle
• Patches from the Biddle's History!

• Her Story:
  • Under Construction 1963 - 1965
  • Launching the Biddle July 2, 1965
  • Sea Trials
  • Commissioning the Biddle January 21, 1967
• Commissioning Book
• 1967 - 1980 Vietnam to Romania
  • 1968 Meritorious Unit Commendation
  • The 1968 Command History
  • 1969 Meritorious Unit Commendation
  • The 1970 Command History
  • The 1971 Command History
  • Biddle - The Early Years by DS2 James Treadway. Treadway is a plankowner who was there from the very beginning. His story covers everything from Bath Iron Works to The Biddle's first combat deployment in Vietnam.
  • The Night of the MiGs, a press account of the night of 19 July 1972 when the Biddle removed two North Vietnamese MiGs from the sky with both gun and missile fire.
    • FTG2 Jim Parks' personal recollection of the engagement from his GQ station at the port 3" gun which is believed to have destroyed one MiG.
  • 1972 Command History  Biddle's second deployment to Vietnam and the official acount of The Night of the MiGs.
  • The 1973 Command History
  • The 1974 Command History
  • The 1975 Command History
  • The 1976 Command History
    • TWA Flight 841 - the true story of Hard Chargers at the site of a horrible air disaster as told by OS2 Ronnie Slaughter (1973 - 1975).
  • The Soviet Refueling - HTCS Richard Outland sends us this bit of Cold War drama straight out of a Tom Clancy novel.  Originally this was intended to be posted in "Sea Stories" but it's just too good. Enjoy one hell of a tale!

• 1980 - 1993 Libya to Yugoslavia
  • The Fitter Engagement - The Biddle helps two F-14s down a pair of Libyan Su-22 Fitters.
  • The 1990 Command History  The beginning of Operation Desert Shield.
  • The 1991 Command History  The stunning conclusion of America's shortest war in history.
  • Decommissioning the Biddle
  • The Biddle in Decline
  • De-Commissioning Book (not available yet)

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  Special Thanks to Dr. Winkler and the whole gang at the Navy Historical Foundation in the Washington Navy Yard for helping us find this invaluable data!

  As always, we are looking for submissions from crewmen to help fill in the details that the official accounts don't provide.  We'll be collecting stories and histories at the reunion, but if you have a special memory you would like preserved and it's a bit more than a "sea story," please send your story to webmaster@ussbiddle.org and we'll publish it.

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