Information provided by USS KIDD Veterans Museum: ... “We are coming to Baton Rouge because we want to maintain a connection between our history and the future of KIDD. DD-661 is our namesake, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — The USS KIDD (DD-661) has been awarded a Tin Can Sailors, Inc. grant of $10,000 for several ship preservation projects. The grant comes from the Thomas J. Peltin Des… ...

On Tuesday, December 7, veterans and community members are invited to attend the USS KIDD Veterans Museum’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony in Baton Rouge.

These are the USS Kidd (DD-661), the only Fletcher-class destroyer in its original World War II configuration, and DD-661’s sister warship USS The Sullivans (DD-537). Though 175 of the class ...

The destroyer USS Kidd arrived in San Diego with more than 60 sailors infected with coronavirus, more than triple the number since Friday, the Navy says.

To the untrained eye, the USS Kidd has looked exactly as it did in World War II. But naval veterans of that era — and USS Kidd Veterans Museum staff New blast shield has USS Kidd looking like it ...

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He was wearing his worn blue baseball cap that said "USS Kidd DD-661, Kamikaze Survivor." There was a tiny Jolly Roger flag pin and a silver USN medal stuck on the hat.

Nearly 100 sailors from the US Navy destroyer USS Kidd have tested positive for coronavirus, two US defense officials told CNN Friday.

USS Kidd’s service in World War II effectively ended when a Japanese kamikaze plane struck it off Okinawa on April 11, 1945. Its days as a warship came to a ...