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	88k	Born in New York City 18 May 1829, Daniel Lawrence Braine was appointed Midshipman in 1847. He served in Mississippi and John Adams during the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded Monticello and took part in an engagement with the rebel battery at Sewell's Point, in the first naval engagement of the war. He also took part in the attack and capture of Forts Hatteras and Clarke and engaged the enemy at Kimmekerk Woods above Cape Hatteras. Between 1873 and 1875 he commanded Juniata on its cruise to Greenland in search of the ill-fated Polaris Expedition. Rear Admiral Braine retired in May 1891 and died at Brooklyn 30 January 1898.		Bill Gonyo
	14k	Undated war time image. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 31, Design 16d.		-
	40k	Undated, Modernized for the ASW role, #3 gun has been removed		-
	162k	Undated, location unknown.		Joe Radigan
	60k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard B. Kirkland
	45k	Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.		Mike Smolinski
	26k	Undated, location unknown. Photos from the ArmadaArgentina Website.		Joe Radigan
	71k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET
	107k	1944 image showing Braine as she Appeared Shortly After Arriving In The South Pacific.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	61k	Starboard view of the USS Braine (DD-630) underway on April 29, 1944. The ship is camouflaged in Measure 31/16d scheme. Source: Australian War Memorial, Photo No. 302522.		Mike Green
	150k	Damage To Braine From Shore Battery Fire At Tinian, June 14 1944.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	140k	Transfering Wounded To New Mexico BB-40, June 14 1944.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	162k	The USS Braine (DD-630) transfers wounded to the battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) during a dramatic moment for immediate medical attention after being hit by a Japanese six-inch shore battery off the shores of Tinian in the Mariana Islands on 14 June 1944. The Braine and New Mexico were participants in support of the troop landings during the capture efforts of the islands of Saipan and Tinian. The battleship USS Colorado and the destroyer USS Norman Scott were both hit by six inch Japanese shore batteries. The Colorado was hit 22 times, killing 44 men.The Norman Scott was hit six times, killing the captain, Seymore Owens, and 22 of his seamen. After the battle, Tinian became an important base for further Allied bombing operations in the Pacific Campaign. Camps were built for 50,000 troops. Fifteen thousand Seabees turned the island into the busiest and largest airfield of the war, with six 2,400 m runways for attacks by B-29 Superfortress bombers on targets in the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands and mainland Japan, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to help end hostilities in the Pacific. 09-7930-26. Courtesy of the U.S.Navy BUMED Library and Archives.		Bill Gonyo
	73k	Braine's Profile After being Hit By Two Kamikazes Off Okinawa, May 27 1945.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	113k	Close Up Of Damage After 1st Kamikaze, Port Side 40mm Mount.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	98k	Close Up Of Damage After 1st Kamikaze, Starboard Side Looking Forward, Note The Splinter Shield has Been Completly Blow Off The Number 2 5" Gun Mount.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	102k	Close Up Of Damage After 2nd Kamikaze, Midships At The Aft Stack.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	195k	Damage sustained by the USS Braine (DD-630) after being attacked on 27 May. The first two kamikazes hit between mount 52 and the forward face of her bridge, blowing out the mount's gun house and leaving the damage to the two 40 mm mounts just aft seen here. The second kamikaze hit at the base of her second funnel, blowing it overboard. Fires raged at the site of both crashes. It was noon before the fires were contained and she could be towed to safety. Photo National Archives and Records Administration.		Robert Hurst
	34k	Photo taken by Vincent Grobbel BM1/c USCG from the USS Davenport (PF-69), circa 15 Nov 1945 to 4 Feb 1946 at the South Boston US Navy Yard.		Mike Grobbel
	43k	As above.		Mike Grobbel
	51k	As above.		Mike Grobbel
	110k	Braine as she appeared in 1953.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	84k	Braine as she appeared from 1951 until Decommissioning in 1971.		Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630
	136k	USS Braine (DD-630) at sea, following her mid-1950s modernization, in which she lost one 5"/38 gun mount and received three 3"/50 twin mounts. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 91898.		Robert Hurst
	120k	USS Stoddard (DD-56) and USS Braine (DD-630) in San Diego circa 1956-57.		Everett Ellestad
	137k	Circa 1956, location unknown.		Everett Ellestad
	69k	Circa 1956, location unknown.		Everett Ellestad
	71k	Taken in 1958 from the USS Piedmont (AD-17) as she came alongside for underway replenishment.		Bill Caldwell
	74k	Circa 1960s at Long Beach.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	138k	May 2 1961, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	179k	USS Hornet (CVS-12) at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The photo may have been taken in late January-mid February 1965, at the end of her FRAM II modernization. Bow of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) is visible on the right-center of the picture, stern of USS Braine (DD-630) on the bottom, and USS Chicago (CG-11) on the left-center.		Tracy White
	127k	A closer view of the Braine as seen in the above photo. Naval Shipyard Hunters Point San Francisco, Historic Shipyard Photographic Collection 1904-1974, NARA San Francisco.		Tracy White
	175k	From the 1966-1967 WestPac Cruisebook.		Richard B. Kirkland
	58k	The USS Turner Joy (DD-951), during 1966-67 deployment to Vietnam, coming alongside the USS Braine (DD-630).		Richard B. Kirkland
	158k	Three views of the USS Braine (DD-630) replenishing from the USS Coral Sea in February 1967 while on the way home from a WestPac Deployment.		Michael O'Brien
	198k	As above.		Michael O'Brien
	215k	As above.		Michael O'Brien
	63k	Forward stack of the USS Braine while in the yard at Naval Ship Yard Mare Island December 1967. The ship in the background is the USS Uhlmann (DD-687) in the floating drydock at the south end of the yard.		© Richard Leonhardt
	56k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	77k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	66k	Ship's patch.		Richard B. Kirkland
	100k-120k	Uniform Ship's name shoulder patch.		Al Grazevich
	97k	Ship's plaque.		Mike Smolinski
On Argentinian Service
	67k	Manuel Tomás Domecq Garcia (born in Tobatí, Paraguay, 12 June 1859; died in Buenos Aires, 11 January 1951). Paraguayan-Argentinian military man and politician; was inter alia Minister of the Navy during the presidency of Marcelo T. Alvear.		Francisco Javier Santos Vazquez
	29k	Undated, location unknown. Photos from the ArmadaArgentina Website.		Joe Radigan
	146k	The First and Second Destroyer Divisions in 1979 at the Naval Base of Puerto Belgrano, near Bahia Blanca in the south part of Buenos Aires Province. Since no hull numbers can be seen it is impossible to accurately identify each ship, however, the ships present include the D 22 Rosales (ex DD 644 Stembel), D 29 Piedrabuena (ex DD 730 Collett), D 25 Seguí (ex DD 702 Hank), D 23 Domecq Garcia (ex DD630 Braine), D 24 Storni (ex DD 547 Cowell), D 27 Py (ex DD 877 Perkins) and the D 26 Bouchard (ex DD 704 Borie). Additional info thanks to Adalberto Alvarez; "In the photograph, the ships on the right belong to the 2nd Division of Destroyers. On the left, we see the 1st Division of Destroyers, and we find the Bouchard among these. (The Bouchard was assigned to the 2nd Division in 1980). The ship we see on the front of the 1st Division Destroyers is not the Bouchard, because the Bouchard didn’t have that kind of life rafts until 1982, during the war. The ship in the middle belongs to the Fletcher class. This means that the Bouchard is the one moored to dock."		Horacio Héctor Virardi
	305k	The submarine ARA Santiago del Estero (S22, ex-USS Chivo, SS-341), alongside the destroyer ARA Almirante Domecq Garcia (D23, (ex - USS Braine), ARA Comodoro Py (D 27, ex-USS Perkins) is shown astern, circa 1982. Photo courtesy Robert L. Scheina.		Robert Hurst

CDR John Francis Newman Jr.    May 11 1943 - May 11 1944

CDR William Wilson Fitts    May 11 1944 - Aug 1945

LCDR Marlin David Clausner    Aug 1945 - Jul 26 1946

(Decommissioned Jul 26 1946 - Apr 6 1951)

CDR Eugene Darrel Lamiman    Apr 6 1951 - 16 May 1952

CDR Doyan Klein    May 16 1952 - Jul 25 1953

CDR James Harvey Elsom    Jul 25 1953- Jul 25 1955

CDR Mervin Otis Slater    Jul 25 1955 - Oct 24 1957

CDR Donald Anton Henning    Oct 24 1957 - Nov 27 1959

CDR David Austin Shonerd    Nov 27 1959 - Aug 14 1961

CDR Robert Whitney Lowman    Aug 14 1961 - Dec 12 1962

CDR Edward Albert Williams    Dec 12 1962 - Oct 15 1963

CDR Robert Juarez    Oct 15 1963 - Jan 23 1965

CDR Elton Vaugh Conger    Jan 23 1965 - May 28 1966

CDR Fred J. Fleiner    May 28 1966 - Oct 2 1968

CDR Richard Don Van Antwerp    Oct 2 1968 - Oct 30 1969

CDR Curtis Ralph Norton Jr.    Oct 30 1969 - Dec 16 1969

CDR Philip Christian Simon    Dec 16 1969 - Aug 17 1971

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Mario E. Olmos    Aug 18 1971 - 21 Feb 21 1972

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Niecto E. Ayerra    Feb 21 1972 - Feb 14 1973

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Federico C.Garriga    Feb 14 1973 - Mar 11 1974

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Roberto A. Day    Mar 11 1974 - Feb 3 1975

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Carlos E. Bar    Feb 3 1975 - Jan 21 1976

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Carlos A. Vaibinger    Jan 21 1976 - Jan 3 1977

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Marcelo A. Linares    Jan 3 1977 - Jan 24 1978

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Jorge A. Mantoyani    Jan 24 1978 - Jul 13 1978

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) José María Arriola    Jul 13 1978 - Mar 2 1979

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Héctor F. Lobbosco    Mar 2 1979 - Feb 12 1980

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Antonio A. Russo    Feb 12 1980 - Dec 15 1980

Cap. de Fragata (CDR) Ricardo Sánchez    Dec 15 1980 - Feb 2 1982

Cap. de Corbeta (LCDR) Héctor Zurowski    Feb 2 1982 - Nov 30 1982