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USS Charles E. Brannon (DE 446)

N - H - D - C
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Mad River"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - World War II Victory Medal
Second Row: National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Philippine Liberation Ribbon

Specifications:
Class: John C. Butler
Type: WGT (geared-turbine drive, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1350 tons (light), 1745 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 11' 0" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 2 - 5"/38 cal. DP guns (2x1), 4 - 40mm AA (2x2), 10 - 20mm AA, 3 - 21" TT, 1 Mk10 Hedgehog, 8 Mk6 Depth Charge Projectors, 2 Mk9 Depth Charge Stern Racks
Complement: 14 / 201

Charles E. Brannon (DE 446) Building and Operational Data:

13 January 1944: Keel laid by the Federal Shipbuilding Co., Port Newark, N.J.

23 April 1944: Launched and christened, sponsored by Second Lieutenant D. Brannon, WAG

1 November 1944: Commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Cdr E. W. Todd in command

21 May 1946: Decommissioned at San Diego, Cal.

August 1946: Placed "In Service", assigned to NRT at San Diego, Cal.

21 November 1950: Recommissioned

18 June 1960: Decommissioned, placed "In Service", continuing as as a Reserve Training Ship

23 September 1968: Taken "Out of Service", Stricken from the NVR

27 October 1969: Sold for scrapping

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
72k	undated: Left to Right: R.P. Mathews, SR, R.L. Hilt, SA, George S. Smith, SA, and Wayne G. Pearson, SA, firing the 20mm gun aboard the USS *Charles E. Brannon* (DE 446). (US Navy Photo #80-G-444372 from the National Archives)	Bill Gonyo
72k	undated: aboard *Charles E. Brannon* - B.F. Morris, QMSN, on the signal bridge, passing a message to another ship. (U.S. Navy Photo #80-G-444364 from the National Archives)	Bill Gonyo
105k	undated postwar photo	Richard H. Willard RD3
29k	undated postwar image, in company with *Grady* (DE 445)	Robert Hurst
150k	undated post-war image	Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendant USS Slater Memorial
181k	February 1962: Pearl Harbor HI - This was taken by CortRon 7 when *Brannon* was deploying to Viet Nam.	Dan O'Reilly SMCM (SW), USN (ret.)

View the USS Charles E. Brannon (DE 446) DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Richard Willard's Charles E. Brannon web site
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Charles E. Brannon
The Destroyer History Foundation

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