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
	Leon Samuel Kintberger, USN
1	Robert Edgar Braddy, Jr., USN	Oct 1941	Dec 1942 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. Benjamin Long Edes Talman, USN	Dec 1942	Dec 1943 (1)

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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.

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.