Tills

Tills may refer to:

  • Robert Tills, the first American naval officer killed during the Battle of the Philippines.
  • USS Tills (DE-748), a Cannon-class destroyer escort named after Robert Tills.

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Robert Tills - Discovery of Remains
... site and discovered the wreckage of the Catalina and recovered Robert Tills's remains ... that they had identified the remains of Ensign Robert Tills and will be returning his remains to his family for burial with full military honors ... Ensign Robert Tills was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on 23 March 2009 ...
USS Tills (DE-748) - World War II Pacific Theatre Operations
... Tills was assigned to Escort Division (CortDiv) 53 and conducted trials and shakedown off San Diego, California, before post-shakedown availability at Terminal Island ... On 2 January 1945, Tills departed Pearl Harbor for exercises with TG 12.3, before the hunter-killer group headed for the Marshalls ... Tills weighed anchor on 5 February for a hunter-killer mission ...
Robert Tills - Career
... On 24 May 1937, Robert Tills enlisted in the Naval Reserves as a Seaman Second Class and reported for active duty on 14 June ... On 18 September 1939, 17 days after World War II began in Europe, Tills was commissioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve and assigned to Patrol Wing 2, Patrol Squadron 21 ... On 14 April 1941, Tills was upgraded to regular Navy status and commissioned as an Ensign ...
USS Tills (DE-748) - Return To Stateside
... Tills departed Hawaiian waters on 2 November, bound for the west coast ... Of the eight people rescued, Tills picked up two and soon transferred them to Casablanca (CVE-55) where more complete medical treatment was available ... Arriving at San Diego, California, on 9 November, Tills underwent six days of availability before sailing for Panama on the 17th ...
USS Tills (DE-748)
... USS Tills (DE-748) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II ... She was named in honor of Robert George Tills who was the first American naval officer killed in the defense of the Philippines ... and Steel Company launched on 3 October 1943 sponsored by Miss Helen Irene Tills, the sister of the late Ensign Tills and commissioned on 8 August ...

Famous quotes containing the word tills:

    “The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
    The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
    Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
    And after many a summer dies the swan.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)