Ted Dietz
Electrical Dept
Chief Electrician

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Memberships:
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
American Society Naval Engineers.
U.S.Naval Institute.
Past President Maryland Marine Club, Baltimore, MD.
Past President AA County Retired Officers Assoc.

Served on seven types of vessels and the German cruiser PRINZ EUGEN (Able and Baker atomic tests). Tours with two destroyer tenders and experimental work with mine warfare electric cable and related equipment.

January 1942 - Entered NAVY boot camp Newport RI as an SA.

World War II years - Duty included the USS TIDE (AM 125), USS WYOMING (the Chesapeake Raider), three schools and a DD to WESPAC.

Post War Years - After Able and Baker returned to the Atlantic for two DEs and two minesweepers before the Amphibs and five trips to the Mediterranean in six years, one set back-to-back and made the Lebanon landings with the Marines. The LSD-25, my last ship, took me to the Bay of Pigs.

Shore duty along the way: Movie exchange at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Reserve Fleet Bayonne NJ, and the Naval Academy.

August 1962 - Retired from US Navy as CWO (Electrician).

1963 - Joined the yard workers at Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock as Electrical Leader, then Engineering.

1983 - Retired from the estimating department (MSB&DD).

1983 to date - Independent Marine Ccnsultant working with various groups mostly on the upgrade or conversion of Navy auxiliary vessels from military to civilian crews.

May 1988 - Being around steel ships for so long I was talked into a ONE year commitment to work up a schedule for restoring the electrical system on the SS JOHN W. BROWN. The rest of my retirement is with church and Sunday School. There is some time left for the house.