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	71k	George Mifflin Bache was born on 12 November 1840 at Washington, D.C. and was appointed midshipman on 9 November 1857. Graduating from the Naval Academy just after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Passed Midshipman Bache went to sea in the sloop Jamestown that operated along the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy. Later, he served briefly in the steam sloop Powhatan before transferring to the squadron on the Mississippi River late in 1862. On 8 November 1862, he received orders to assume command of the stern wheel, casemate gunboat Cincinnati. Lt. Bache commanded the gunboat during operations leading up to the fall of Vicksburg, Miss., early in July of 1863. During those operations, however, his ship was sunk on 27 May 1863 while dueling Confederate batteries defending the river approaches to the city. That summer, he took command of the sidewheel gunboat Lexington and led her in a number of engagements with Confederate forces. In 1864, he returned to the Atlantic blockade as executive officer of Powhatan. While assigned to that ship, Lt. Bache participated in both the unsuccessful and successful assaults on Fort Fisher, N.C., carried out in December 1864 and January 1865. In the latter attack, he was wounded but not severely. Following the Civil War, he served in Sacramento until she was destroyed on a reef at the mouth of the Godavary River, Madras, India, on 19 June 1867. Between 1869 and 1872, Lt. Comdr. Bache was assigned to the steam sloop Juniata on the European Station. After that, he went ashore to ordnance duty at the Washington Navy Yard until his retirement on 5 April 1875. Comdr. Bache died on 11 February 1896 at Washington, D.C. Digital ID: cph 3a02176, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.		Bill Gonyo
USS Bache (DD/DDE-470)
	92k	Undated, location unknown.		Robert M. Cieri
	78k	Undated, location unknown.		David Buell
	109k	Undated, location unknown.		Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	85k	Undated, location unknown.		Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	156k	Undated, location unknown.		Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	149k	Undated, location unknown.		Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	201k	Undated, location unknown.		Randy Kimes/Yucel M.Umar, CPO (Ret.) Turkish Navy
	99k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	103k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	132k	USS Bache (DD-470) in New York Harbor during her delivery trip from the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Staten Island, New York, 14 November 1942. The ship's radar antennas have not yet been fitted. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection. James C. Fahey Collection. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 95930.		Mike Green
	148k	Starboard bow view of USS Bache (DD-470) in New York Harbor during her delivery trip from the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Staten Island, New York, 14 November 1942. The ship's radar antennas have not yet been fitted. Note the Bethlehem Steel Company's flag flying from Bache's port halyards, and the Flower class gunboat (ex-British corvette) in the right distance. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection. James C. Fahey Collection. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 95931.		Mike Green
	157k	A distant view of BACHE off a Leyte beachhead, 20 October 1944. View from USS LEON (APA60). NARA 80G 287014.		John Chiquoine
	137k	January 16 1945 in San Francisco.		Ed Zajkowski
	157k	Starboard bow view of USS Bache (DD-470) off San Francisco, California on 16 January 1945. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection. James C. Fahey Collection. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 95932.		Mike Green
	112k	USS Bache (DD-470) off San Francisco, California on 16 January 1945. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection. James C. Fahey Collection. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 95932.		Robert Hurst
	117k	USS Bache moored at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 20 October 1945. In the foreground are HMS Essington (inboard) and HMS Calder (outboard), the first 'Captain' class frigates to be returned to the US Navy after the war. Both had completed refits as Coastal Forces Control Ships for service with the East Indies Fleet before return. Note all Oerlikons aft of the funnel removed, replaced by three single 40mm Bofors; four single Bofors also replaced the four Oerlikons forward of the bridge. All 3" guns on Essington, have spray shields, and Foxer gear is prominent on sterns of both ships. Type SA radar at mastheads of both, and extra depth charge racks can be seen forward of throwers. Photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II: A Complete Survey, by Peter Elliot.		Robert Hurst/Rick E. Davis
	39k	New York City, October 1945 during the Naval Review.		Bruce Helmboldt
	250k	This view from USS Hobby is at a New York pier during Navy Day week, 1945. All four participated in the Presidential Fleet Review on 27 October 1945. Seen are left to right; USS Bache (DD-470), USS Welles (DD-628), and USS Renshaw (DD-499). From the collection of USS Hobby son Pete Carucci.		Gary Edmisten and John Chiquoine
	181k	A series of 5 images of the Bache from July 1953.		Mitch Rycus
	118k	As above.		Mitch Rycus
	154k	As above.		Mitch Rycus
	124k	As above.		Mitch Rycus
	126k	As above with the USS Beale (DD-471), USS Murray (DD-576), USS Eaton (DD-510) and USS Bache (DD-470).		Mitch Rycus
	118k	Our Navy Magazine, Mid-July 1954.		Stanley Svec
	79k	Circa 1959 on a deployment from the United Kingdom to Australia. Photo by Mark's grandfather. From Left to right: probably the USS Beale (DD-471), USS Massey (DD-778), USS Benham (DD-796), USS Murray (DD-576), USS Bache (DD-470) and USS Eaton (DD-510).		Mark Tylinski
	91k	Task Group ALFA, formation portrait of the anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during 1959 exercises in the Atlantic, while Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke was embarked. Ships include the group flagship, USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS Eaton (DDE-510) at left front, USS Beale (DDE-471) following Eaton, USS Waller (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS Conway (DDE-507) at right front. The reamianing two are the USS Bache (DD-470) and USS Cony (DD-508) of DesRon 28. Aircraft overhead include two formations of S2F "Trackers" from the Valley Forge air group, plus one shore-based P2V "Neptune" from Norfolk Naval Air Station, Virginia. Two HSS-1 helicopters are flying low, directly over the submarines. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	144k	USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) Steams in formation with other units of Task Force ALFA, during anti-submarine exercises in the Atlantic, 1959. The other ships present are (from left): USS Murray (DDE-576), USS Beale (DDE-471), USS Bache (DDE-470), USS Eaton (DDE-510), USS Conway (DDE-507), USS Cony (DDE-508) and USS Waller (DDE-466). Photograph was released for publication on 3 August 1959. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Fred Weiss
	144k	USS Bache (DD-470) underway at sea on 21 July 1964. Though redesignated a destroyer (DD) in 1962, Bache remains in the antisubmarine destroyer (DDE) configuration she received in the early 1950s. Photographer: PH1 Arthur W. Gilberson. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 107299.		Robert Hurst
	66k	Hampton Roads, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	76k	Hampton Roads, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	66k	Hampton Roads, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	53k	Hampton Roads, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	51k	Hampton Roads, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	169k	Rhodes Island, Greece, Bache rests just outside the harbor of the island of Rhodes where she was blown aground on February 6 1968. The Greek oiler L-166 stands by to assist.		Ed Zajkowski
	223k	Overhead view of USS Bache (DD-470) aground just outside the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, circa February 1968. Bache was blown ashore by gale force winds on 6 February 1968. There were no personnel casualties, but the ship was damaged beyond economical repair. Source: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Photo No. USN 1129748.		Mike Green
	201k	USS Bache(DD-470) aground just outside the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, circa February 1968. Note the many spectators ashore. Bache was blown ashore by gale force winds on 6 February 1968. There were no personnel casualties, but the ship was damaged beyond economical repair. Source: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Photo No. KN-16237.		Mike Green
	73k	Newpaper article & photo of the Bache aground in Rhodes, Greece from February 10 1968.		Tommy Trampp
	77k	Ship's patch		Mike Smolinski
	96k	Ship's patch		Tom Gamstetter

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LCDR Robert Cameron Morton    Feb 14 1944 - Dec 1 1944

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LCDR William Kenneth Ratliff    Sep 1 1945 - Oct 26 1945

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LCDR William Kenneth Ratliff    Dec 15 1945 - Jan 5 1946

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CDR Arthur Richard Hasler Jr.    May 1965 - ? 1967

CDR Edward Ara Broadwell    ? 1967 - 1968

LCDR Clyde Andrew Leo Carter    1968 - Mar 1 1968