Ships
- USS Hunt (DD-674) Captain, 17 August 1957 – 26 August 1957
Albert Louis Stickles II was born on 14 February 1922 in La Junta, Colorado, the son of Dr. Albert L. Stickles and Agatha Fulco Stickles. He grew up there and showed an early strength in mathematics, the field in which he later earned a doctorate. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in the first half of the Class of 1944 and went to sea while the Second World War was still being fought.
His wartime duty ran through both the European and Pacific theaters. He took part in the landings at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. On the day of Japan's surrender he was in Tokyo Bay.
Postgraduate study followed the war, and after that he returned to sea for duty in Korean waters. He next went to Princeton, New Jersey, where he worked with John von Neumann on early digital computers built for government use. He oversaw the installation of the weather computer at Suitland, Maryland, and served a tour as a White House aide.
In the summer of 1957, as a lieutenant commander, he became commanding officer of the destroyer Hunt (DD-674). The ship had entered service in September 1943 under Frank Paull Mitchell, Jr., left the active fleet in December 1945, and returned to commission at San Diego on 31 October 1951 under Lynn F. Barry. Stickles held command from 17 August 1957 to 26 August 1957, during the national celebration of the 350th anniversary of Jamestown. He then went to Norfolk and took command of the destroyer J. C. Owens.
His next assignment was the Armed Forces Staff College, first as a student and afterward as an instructor. In 1962 he joined the staff of the Commander, Sixth Fleet, with responsibility for surface operations. In 1965 he commanded the ammunition ship Nitro at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
In 1968 he was appointed commander of Destroyer Squadron 1 and served on the gunline off Vietnam, with Jouett as his flagship. He afterward returned to the Pentagon, where he worked on new methods for tracking Navy expenditures in the comptroller organization. He retired from the Navy in 1972.
As a civilian he worked as a consulting analyst for Techplan Corporation, Semcor, and Eco Inc., developing command, control, and communications systems. He died of lung cancer on 5 November 2010 at Marco Island, Florida. He was survived by his son, Albert Louis Stickles III, of Marco Island; a granddaughter, Kimberley Stickles McKenzie, and a great-grandson, Brendan Stickles, of Virginia Beach; and a sister, Sylvia Wilkinson, of San Diego.