This WEBSITE is in HONOR of: The Officers and Crew of the BRAINE DEDICATION This Website is dedicated to the hundreds of Tin Can Sailors who served on the USS BRAINE - DD630 during her twenty-three years of service in the United States Navy and in memory of the seventy killed in action and the four who died in the line of duty keeping the peace.   USS BRAINE - DD630 "Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, 'I served in the United States Navy'." John Fitzgerald Kennedy RADM Daniel Lawrence Braine History of the BRAINE Construction & Commissioning The Shake Down Cruise On to the Pacific To the Battlezone The Solomon Islands The Marianas Campaign Liberation of the Philippines Okinawa - A Fiery Sunday Morning Eye witness to Carnage Reconstruction of the Braine Recommissioning and Med. Cruises Active & In Memoriam Rosters Braine Waves The Fifties and the Pacific Cruises The Sixties and Vietnam Campaign In Memoriam Campaign Awards Personal Awards Argentine Service As We Remember Reunion Association War News... the Pacific Historical Facts & Trivia Nautical Terms and Phrases Navy Glossary Acknowledgments What's New Useful Links Association President Jim Rountree Email Historian Dale Burmeister Email