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Lieutenant ''Earle Wayne Freed Childs'' (1 August 1893 – 2 March 1918) was an officer in the United States Navy who died during World War I. A submariner, he died when the submarine he was on sank in a maritime collision. ==Biography== Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Childs was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1915. He was married to Miss Gertrude Boucher on June 27, 1917. He attended his wedding with his head bandaged from an auto accident he was in that morning while driving in a storm and he was cut by flying glass from the windshield. After graduation from the Naval Academy, as an ensign, was assigned to the USS Culgoa, a refrigerated supply ship. He was next assigned to the USS Celtic and another refrigerated supply ship. He then was detached from Celtic in June 1916 to the battleship USS Montana. As a lieutenant, he served in World War I in the submarine ''L-2''. On board the British submarine HMS ''H5'' as an observer, Lieutenant Childs was lost when ''H5'' sank with all hands after a collision with a merchantman off the English coast. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Earle Childs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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