High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Liddle (DE-206/APD-60), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Pharmacist`s Mate Third Class William P. Liddle (1919–1942), who was killed in action, while serving with the 1st Marine Division, during the Battle of Guadalcanal on 19 August 1942. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.