Allied Warships

USS Bernadou (DD 153)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 153
Built by	William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	4 Jun 1918
Launched	7 Nov 1918
Commissioned	19 May 1919
End service	17 Jul 1945
History	Decommissioned 21 July 1922 Recommissioned 1 May 1930 DeCommissioned in September 1936 Recommissioned in October 1939 Decommissioned 17 July 1945 Sold for scrap 30 November 1945.

Commands listed for USS Bernadou (DD 153)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. George Aloysius Leahey, Jr., USN	16 Oct 1939	24 Jun 1940
2	Lt. Leon Samuel Kintberger, USN	24 Jun 1940	18 Jul 1940
3	Lt.Cdr. George Charles Wright, USN	18 Jul 1940	21 Oct 1941
4	Lt. Robert Edgar Braddy, Jr., USN	21 Oct 1941	1 Dec 1942 (1)
5	T/Cdr. Ernest William Longton, USN	1 Dec 1942	4 Feb 1943
6	Lt. Edward Francis Scott, USN	4 Feb 1943	6 May 1943
7	T/Lt.Cdr. Benjamin Long Edes Talman, USN	6 May 1943	4 Apr 1944 (1)
8	William C. Meredith, USNR	4 Apr 1944	17 Jul 1945

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Notable events involving Bernadou include:

5 Feb 1942
USS Bernadou picks up 10 survivors from the Belgian merchant Gandia that was torpedoed and sunk on 22 January 1942 by German U-boat U-135 about 420 nautical miles east of Cape Race in position 45°00'N, 41°00'W.

1 Jun 1942
USS Bernadou (Lt.Cdr. R.E. Braddy, Jr., USN) picks up four survivors from the British merchant Fred W. Green that was shelled and sunk by German U-boat U-506 on 31 May about 200 miles southeast of Bermuda in position 30°20'N, 62°00'W.

26 Jun 1942
USS Bernadou involved in rescue of people off MV Jagersfontein sunk by sunk by U-107Gelhaus taking survivors off the Swiss SS Cergue that had been first on the scene after the sinking. 26 June 1942 (2)

27 Aug 1942
USS Bernadou picks up survivors from the American passenger ship Chatham that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-517 in the Belle Isle Strait in position 51°53'N, 55°48'W.