William Carlisle Dekle (1926 - 2012)

Born 26 Sep 1926 in West Palm Beach, Florida

Ancestors

Son of Cecil Carlisle Dekle and Ruth (Rustin) Dekle

Husband of Laura Mae (Laurence) Young — married 2 Sep 1957 (to Dec 1958) in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

Husband of Maria Josephine (Muscariello) Dekle — married 18 Sep 1969 in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States

Died 12 Apr 2012 at age 85 in Decatur, Georgia, United States

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William Dekle participated in the Second World War. Join: World War II Project Discuss: world_war_II

Biography

Bill Dekle was the son of Cecil Dekle and Ruth Rustin. He married Laura Mae Young Sep 2nd, 1957 in Nassau, Bahamas.^[1]. He was divorced from Laura Mae Young on December 1958 in Dade County, Florida.^[2]

He was a member of an Underwater Demolition Team during World War II, training for the planned invasion of Japan. As his team crossed the Pacific toward their target beaches, the captain announced over the ship's speakers that Japan had surrendered. Their demolition mission was scrubbed. Instead, his team was redeployed to China with orders to neutralize pockets of Japanese soldiers who were unaware the war had ended weeks earlier. For his final military assignment, he oversaw the brig in Key West, Florida. One evening, at a bar, when curfew came into effect, the bartender lent him a civilian jacket to wear over his uniform. However, a patrolling Military Police officer saw through his disguise, arrested him, and placed him in the brig. The following morning, the soldiers under his command had a good laugh.

The Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) were amphibious units created by the United States Navy during World War II with specialized non-tactical missions. Their primary function was to conduct reconnaissance and underwater demolition of natural or man-made obstacles obstructing amphibious landings. The UDTs were predecessors of the navy's current SEAL teams. With no charts or technology available to guide vessels onto enemy shores, the job fell to the roughly 1,000 young swim scouts of the U.S. Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), who were assigned to reconnoiter enemy beaches and clear coastal defenses ahead of Allied landings during World War II. The UDTs were responsible for preparing the beach for the landing of troops by clearing obstacles, marking channels, and providing information on the beach and surf conditions. The specific tasks of the UDTs during the invasion of Japan included conducting reconnaissance of the seaward approaches to landing beaches, locating, improving, and marking usable channels for landing craft, demolishing natural and artificial obstacles, scouting shores, demolishing reef barriers, and neutralizing enemy mines.

(fix)The training for UDTs was intense and included a variety of skills, including parachute training, guerrilla/counterinsurgency operations, and underwater demolition. UDT candidates must attend and graduate from their rating's 24-week "A" School known as Basic Underwater Demolition school, which is designed to find and develop those who have the commitment and dedication. Successful candidates demonstrate a high level of comfort in the water and the ability to perform in stressful and often uncomfortable environments.

During the 1950's he was a manager for about two years of the Tower Isle Hotel (now Couples Tower Isle) in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

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DNA

Paternal relationship is confirmed by an auDNA match between William Dekle GEDmatch T559569 and his second cousin once removed Britt Franklin GEDmatch A232623. Their MRCAs are their second great-grandparents John Dekle and Mary Mercer. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 3.3, based on sharing 147.4 cM across 8 segments.

Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 16.3 cM X chromosome match between William Carlisle Dekle and his 5th cousin James Miles Jr. on GEDmatch. Their most-recent X chromosome common ancestor is Rebecca Wise.

Maternal relationship is also confirmed by a 48.9 cM X chromosome match between William Carlisle Dekle and his 4th cousin twice removed James Turner on GEDmatch. Their most-recent X chromosome common ancestors are William Batchelor Denmark Jr. and Anna Moye.

X Chromosome Notes

William Dekle-6 GEDmatch T559579 shares a 19.2 cM X chromosome segment with Jimmy Price-7294 GEDmatch WP7583358 from 142,533,900 to 150,868,724. Their only known X chromosome ancestry is William Wise and Margaret.

William Dekle-6 GEDmatch T559579 shares a xx cM X chromosome segment with James Miles-2667 GEDmatch T785345 from x to y. Their only known X chromosome ancestry is

Jimmy Price-7294 GEDmatch WP7583358 shares a 7.4 cM X chromosome segment with James Miles-2667 from 142,364,922 to 145,587,741. Their only known X chromosome relationship is

Footnotes

1. ↑ Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRSP-QXP?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZG-L29%3A216314601
2. ↑ "Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK72-24M : 25 December 2014), William C Dekle and Laura M Dekle, Dec 1958; from "Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Dade, Florida, certificate 16228, volume 0843, Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville.

Acknowledgments

Thank-you to Peter Roberts for creating Dekle-6 on 11 Jul 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Peter and others.

Autosomal DNA Matches Via Mother's Ancestry

Bold = Triangulated Group (TG); For common ancestry of a TG, click on -><- to right of last name in TG then in Relationship Finder add WikiTree ID of first name in TG.

The above is a TG with M499049 and A510775 (e-mail them). M229494 Gail Williams jeansman2(at)gmail.com and A510775 David Beers flabear(at)hotmail.com

Autosomal DNA Matches Via Father's Ancestry

Bold = Triangulated Group (TG); For common ancestry of a TG, click on -><- to right of last name in TG then in Relationship Finder add WikiTree ID of first name in TG.

X Chromosome Matches

Miles-2667 136483861 to 142285593 16.28 cM -><-

There is also the possibility that the shared X-DNA segment is from Mourning Mittom Moye

Price-7294 142421555 to 150560582 18.89 cM -><-

X Chromosome Confirmed

Dekle-6's ancestry to Wise-1104 or to his wife Denmark-207 is confirmed because this X-DNA test of Dekle-6 and this X-DNA test of Price-7294 share a 18.89 cM segment from 142421555 to 150560582.