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No Photo Available	-	Captain Gamaliel Bradford, privateersman, was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, 04 November 1768. During the American Revolution, he enlisted in the 14th Massachusetts Regiment (commanded by his father, also named Gamaliel) as a private at the age of thirteen on 28 May 1776. He fought at the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth before encamping with the army for its final cantonment at New Windsor, New York. After Monmouth, he was promoted to Serjeant on 28 June 1778, followed by promotions to Ensign (08 August 1779) and Lieutenant (03 September 1780). When the number of Massachusetts regiments was reduced in 1781, Gamaliel and the other men of the 14th were folded into the 7th Massachusetts Regiment. He stayed on another year in the army before finally returning home in 1784. After the war, he commanded the American private armed ship Mary in 1799, during the Quasi-War with France. In July 1800, in command of Industry, he routed four French privateers at Gibraltar, though he sustained an injury that would cost him his leg. Captain Bradford died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 07 March 1824. He married Elizabeth Parker Hickling on 06 August 1798. They would go on to have seven children. The same year, he was offered command of the frigate Boston by President John Adams, but declined. In the following year he successfully sustained an attack by three French privateers, and in 1800 repulsed two similar attacks, one of which proved a very spirited struggle of one and a half hours, in which the captain received a wound causing the loss of his leg. In spite of his handicapped condition he made later voyages, retiring from the sea in 1809.		Bill Gonyo
USS Bradford (DD-545)
THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the NAVY UNIT COMMENDATION to the U. S. S. BRADFORD for service as set forth in the following CITATION: "For outstanding heroism in action as a Fighter Direction ship on Radar Picket duty during the Okinawa Campaign, May 14 to June 16, 1945. A natural and frequent target of the heavy Japanese aerial attack while occupying advanced and isolated stations, the U.S.S. BRADFORD defeated all efforts of enemy Kamikaze and dive-bombing planes to destroy her. Vigilant and ready for battle, she sent out early air warnings, provided fighter direction and, with her own gunfire downed five hostile planes, routed many more and rendered valiant service in preventing the Japanese from striking in force the Naval Forces off the Okinawa beachhead. A gallant fighting ship, the BRADFORD, her officers and her men withstood the stress and perils of vital Radar Picket duty, achieving a distinctive combat record which attests the teamwork, courage and skill of her entire company and enhances the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service" /s/ James Forrestal Secretary of the Navy
	81k	Undated, location unknown.		Robert M. Cieri
0554528	311k	Underway off San Diego, date unknown. Official Navy PAO photo.		Mike Smolinski
	146k	Undated, off Point Loma.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	124k	Undated, off Point Loma.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	104k	June 1943, inclining experiment.		Ed Zajkowski
	152k	Forward plan view of USS Bradford (DD 545) at Mare Island on 16 Oct 1944.		Darryl Baker
	117k	Aft plan view of USS Bradford (DD 545) at Mare Island on 16 Oct 1944.		Darryl Baker
	86k	Broadside view of USS Bradford (DD 545) off Mare Island on 19 Oct 1944. She was in overhaul at Mare Island from 3 Sep until 23 Oct 1944.		Darryl Baker
	133k	USS Bradford (DD 545) off Mare Island on October 19, 1944. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	54k	San Francisco, March 7 1945.		Pieter Bakels
	91k	San Francisco, March 1945.		Pieter Bakels
	122k	San Francisco, March 7 1945.		Ed Zajkowski
	151k	San Francisco, March 7 1945.		Ed Zajkowski
	119k	May 1945, location unknown.		George York
	119k	Off San Diego, circa mid 1950's.		Marc Piché
	132k	September 1953, location unknown.		Pete Schonenberg, CDR, USN (Ret)
	127k	San Francisco 1957.		Robert M. Cieri
	187k	USS Bradford (DD-545) maneuvering at sea, circa 1961, with the crew manning the rail forward. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 107250.		Robert Hurst
	100k-120k	Uniform Ship's name shoulder patch.		Al Grazevich
On Greek Service
	63k	Official Hellenic Navy picture of HNS THYELLA, D-28, ex- USS BRADFORD, DD 545, date and place unknown. THYELLA in Greek language translates to STORM.		Anthony J. Vrailas
	127k	A/T Thyella (D 28) formerly USS Bradford (DD 545) taken in 1962 in Piraeus Port entrance with rew manning the rails, photo probably in her first arival in Greece after the commissioning in Hellenic Navy in Seattle Washington on September 27th 1962. A/T stands for "Antitorpiliko" greek word meaning counter torpedo (ship) and is the greek word for destroyer, in the same way with "torpedo boat destroyers" , soon contracted to destroyer in English. After 1974 the Hellenic Navy ships had a prefix for the type of ship, before 1974 han the Prefix VP which stand for the words Vasiliko Ploio meaning Royal Ship in greek.		Panagiotis Moschovitis
	135k	As above.		Panagiotis Moschovitis
	135k	Picture of the Greek destroyer Thyella, D 28 (ex-USS Bradford, DD-545), underway circa 1963, location unknown. Note that she still retains all five 5"/38 mounts. Photo Royal Hellenic Navy, Official, from "Jane's Fighting Ship" 1964-65 Edition.		Robert Hurst
	39k	Ship's plaque.		Panagiotis Moschovitis

LCDR Robert Lee Morris    Jun 12 1943 - Oct 18 1944

CDR Warren Wilson Armstrong    Oct 18 1944 - 1946

CDR Robert Luther Thomas Jr.    1946 - Jul 11 1946

(Decommissioned Jul 11 1946 - Oct 27 1950)

CDR Francis Dennis Boyle    Oct 27 1950 - Dec 21 1951 (Later RADM)

CDR Albert Leopold Kobey Jr.    Dec 21 1951 - Aug 1 1953

CDR William Lee Pease    Aug 1 1953 - Jun 1955

CDR Harold Huntington Ellison    Jun 1955 - Sep 1955 (Acting)

CDR Lewis Newton    Sep 1955 - Jun 1957

CDR Lewis Wesley Walker Jr.    Jun 1957 - 1958

CDR Rembrandt Cecil Robinson    Dec 1960 - Jan 15 1962 (Later RADM)

CDR Merwin Edward Rasmussen    Jan 15 1962 - Sep 28 1962