Allied Warships

USS Badger (DD 126)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 126 
Built byNew York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down9 Jan 1918 
Launched24 Aug 1918 
Commissioned29 May 1919 
End service20 Jul 1945 
History

Decommissioned in May 1922
Recommissioned in January 1930
Decommissioned for the final time on 20 July 1945
Stricken 13 August 1945
Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

During WW2 she operated in the Atlantic and the Carribbean as convoy escort. In 1944 she was relocated to the Pacific, and was assigned to training duties.

 

Commands listed for USS Badger (DD 126)

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CommanderFromTo
William Everett Hennigar, USN
John William Schmidt, USN
Herbert Sydney Jones, USN
Royal Alan Wolverton, USN

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Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers

Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

Roscoe, Theodore

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