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	26k	Born in Connecticut in 1823, Oscar C. Badger was appointed Midshipman in 1841. He took an active part in the Mexican and Civil Wars and was frequently commended in dispatches. Commodore Badger retired in August 1885 and died in 1899. Photo of Oscar O. Badger (DD-126) - Commandant Boston Navy Yard, Feb. 15, 1882-Apr. 10, 1885 (Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-7012)		Robert M. Cieri/Stephen P. Carlson, Boston NHP, Charlestown Navy Yard
	72k	Undated, location unknown.		-
	148k	Undated, location unknown.		Paul Rebold
	155k	Undated, out of the water on a marine railway. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	221	Undated, location unknown. From a family scrapbook. Left to right; USS Badger (DD-126), USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), USS Twiggs (DD-127), USS Babbitt (DD-128), USS DeLong (DD-129) and USS Tattnall (Dd-125).		Donna Heuer
	129k	San Diego, CA circa 1920, USS Radford (DD-120), USS Sproston (DD-173), USS Breese (DD-122), USS Badger (DD-126) and USS Montgomery (DD-121). Naval Historical Center photo NH50241.		Daniel Dunham
	153k	Destroyers laid up at San Diego, California. Some of the eighty reserve destroyers in San Diego harbor, part of some 260 destroyers laid up there and at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph dated 29 December 1926. Identifiable ships present include (from left to right): USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Jacob Jones (DD-130); USS Aulick (DD-258); USS Babbitt (DD-128); USS Twiggs (DD-127); and USS Badger (DD-126). Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	50k	Circa 1930's, location unknown.		Marc Piché
	138k	Destroyers at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1930 These ships are (from left to right): USS Badger (DD-126); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Philip (DD-76); USS Broome (DD-210); and the stricken Corry (ex DD-334), which is being scrapped.		Fred Weiss
	140k	USS Badger (DD-126), At Villefranche-sur-Mer, France while serving with Squadron 40-T, circa 1939. Donation of the Oregon Army National Guard, Oregon Military Academy, 1975. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 82492.		Robert Hurst
	36k	February 1945, in Charleston.		Paul Rebold
	79k	Five of the Wickes class flush deck destroyers await the scrapper´s torch at NAS Cape May, New Jersey in October of 1945. From Left; USS Greer (DD-145), USS Bainbridge (DD-246), USS Goff (DM-22 ex DD-247), USS Badger (DD-126) and USS Lea (DD-118).		Gerd Matthes

CDR George Truman Swasey, Jr    May 29 1919 - ?
LCDR Wilfred Everett Clarke    Jun 1920 - May 10 1921
CDR Nathan Woodworth Post    May 10 1921 - Apr 1921
CDR James Dodson Maloney    Feb 6 1931 - ?
LCDR Herbert Sidney Jones    ? 1932 - ?
CDR Hiester Hoogewerff    ? 1934 - ?
LCDR Issiah Parker    ? 1936 - ?
LCDR William Everett Hennigar    ? 1938 - ?
LCDR John William Schmidt    1941 - 1942 (Later RADM)
LCDR Royal Alan Wolverton    ? 1942 - ?
? John Henderson Cotten    1945 - 1945

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