USS Braine  (DD-630)

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Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Fletcher 
Pennant DD 630 
Built by Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 12 Oct 1942 
Launched 7 Mar 1943 
Commissioned 11 May 1943 
Decommissioned  26 July 1946.
Re-commissioned  6 April 1951.
Decommissioned 17 Aug 1971 
Strickened 17 Aug 1971
History 14 June 1944  3 killed in action  from Japanese 4.7 shore battery south of Tinian town.

 

27 May 1945 when 67 crew were killed in action.


Transferred to Argentina 17 August 1971 being renamed Admirante Domecq Garcia.
Admirante Domecq Garcia was sunk as a target 7 October 1983. 
Commanders of Braine
Cdr. John Fancis Newman, Jr., USN      11 May 1943      -   11 May 1944
Cdr. William Wilson Fitts, USN              11May 1944      -    Aug 1945
Lt Cdr Marlin David Clausner, USN          Aug     1945     -    26  July 1946

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