Allied Warships

USS George E. Badger (AVD 3)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	AVD 3
Mod	Sea plane tender
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	24 Sep 1918
Launched	6 Mar 1920
Commissioned	28 Jul 1920
End service	3 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned on 11 August 1922 Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-16 from 1 October 1930 till 21 May 1934 Reclassified as sea plane tender AVP-16 on 1 October 1939 Recommissioned on 8 January 1940 Classification changed to AVD-3 on 2 August 1940 Converted back into a destroyer in early 1943 but classification changed back to DD-196 only on 1 December 1943 Converted to high speed transport and redesignated APD-33 on 19 May 1944 Classification changed back to DD-196 on 20 July 1945 Decommissioned on 3 October 1945 Stricken on 24 October 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 3 June 1946

Commands listed for USS George E. Badger (AVD 3)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Frank (Peak) Akers, USN	8 Jan 1940	19 Apr 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Robert Selden Purvis, Jr., USN	19 Apr 1941	9 Jul 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. William Harry Johnsen, USN	9 Jul 1942	22 Apr 1943
4	Lt. Thomas Hugh Byrd, USNR	22 Apr 1943	5 Dec 1943
5	Edward Matthews Higgins, Jr., USNR	5 Dec 1943	24 Aug 1945
6	Edward Casper Stokes, USNR	24 Aug 1945	3 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving George E. Badger include:

23 Jul 1943
German U-boat U-613 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic south of the Azores, in position 35°32'N, 28°36'W, by depth charges from the US destroyer USS George E. Badger.

13 Dec 1943
German U-boat U-172 was sunk on 13 December 1943 in the mid-Atlantic after a 27 hour fight west of the Canary Islands, in position 26°29'N, 29°58'W, by depth charges and Fido homing torpedoes from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft (VC-19) of the American escort carrier USS Bogue and by some 200 depth charges from the US destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Du Pont.