Druding, Ted James

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Ted James Druding

Ted James Druding was born on January 16, 1908, in St Louis, Missouri, to Grace Ashland, age 24, and Theodore J Druding, age 26. He married Margaret F. Palmer October 5,1931 and they had three children together. In Rye his family lived at 29 Ridgewood Drive.

Ted enlisted in 1944 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. According to the US Navy Muster Rolls he served on the USS Diachenko APD-123 8 Dec 1944 – 13 Oct 1945. Diachenko entered service in the final year of World War II, and was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. She sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, Virginia, on 31 January 1945, stopping at San Diego, Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, and Ulithi’being renamed USS Diachenko on 1 March 1945 while on her voyage’before arriving at Leyte on 21 March.

She transported troops during the reoccupation of the Philippines. She landed soldiers at Legaspi, Philippines on 1 April and Police Harbor on 17 April. She arrived at Morotai, Indonesia on 7 May and transported Australian soldiers for the upcoming invasion at Brunei Bay, Borneo. She returned to Morotai, and on 26 June she set sail to land troops in the assault of Balikpapan, Indonesia on 1 July.

Both before and after the war Ted was a travelling salesman in the cosmetics industry.

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