SS William S. Ladd guns No. 1 to 5 were ordered secured and the Armed Guards were ordered to abandon ship. At 1930 the last Navy personnel and ship's officers abandon the doomed vessel. No one was killed, eight Armed Guards were wounded and hospitalized on Leyte. Today, SS "William S. Ladd" lies at the bottom of Leyte Gulf at approximately . SS William S. Ladd SS "William S. Ladd" (MC hull number 2084) was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 type 'EC2-S-C1' ships that carried all kinds and types of dry cargo during the war. She
William S. Hobson William S. Hobson William S. Hobson is a chemistry teacher. Hobson attended College of the Holy Cross and received his B.A. in 1980. Hobson went on to receive his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated in 1984. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hobson was recruited by Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey and began work in 1984. At Bell Labs Hobson worked on such advances as MOCVD technology, as well as III-V processing and III-V device technologies including VCSELs, HBTs, and high powered lasers. While working at Bell Labs Hobson published many papers and earned many