USS Bray DE 709 APD 139

USS BRAY (DE-709/APD-139)

Named for Marine Corporal Raymond Leon Bray, b. 1 April 1918, Greenville, TX; KIA 7 August 1942, Gavutu, Solomon Islands; posthumous Navy Cross

Type: TEV
Builder: DBC
Keel laid 01/27/44
Launched 04/15/44
Commissioned 09/04/44
First CO: Cdr J. A. Hetherington II
Redesignated 07/16/45
Decommissioned 05/10/46
Stricken 06/01/60
Target, sunk 03/26/63

Unit of CortDiv 12

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006