USS Braine (DD 630)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 630
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	12 Oct 1942
Launched	7 Mar 1943
Commissioned	11 May 1943
End service	17 Aug 1971
History	Decommissioned 26 July 1946. Recommissioned 6 April 1951. Decommissioned and stricken 17 August 1971. Transferred to Argentina 17 August 1971 being renamed Admirante Domecq Garcia. Admirante Domecq Garcia was sunk as a target 7 October 1983.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. John Fancis Newman, Jr., USN	11 May 1943	11 May 1944
2	T/Cdr. William Wilson Fitts, USN	11 May 1944	24 Aug 1945
3	Marlin David Clausner, USN	24 Aug 1945	26 Jul 1946 (1)

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