Ships
- USS Monssen (DD-798) Captain, 14 February 1944 – 21 July 1944
Bernhardt Alois Feutsch was born in Nevada on 18 February 1909. He served as an officer in the United States Navy during the Second World War and held command at sea in the Pacific.
From 13 April 1942 to 30 October 1943 he commanded the high-speed minesweeper Perry (DMS-17) as a lieutenant commander. Perry was an older destroyer that had been refitted to sweep mines while staying with the fleet.
On 14 February 1944, as a commander, he commissioned the new Fletcher-class destroyer Monssen (DD-798) at the Bethlehem Steel yard on Staten Island, New York, and became her first commanding officer. The ship carried the name of Mons Monssen, a Navy gunner. She worked up off Bermuda, then went north to Boston, met the new cruisers Vincennes, Houston, and Miami, and escorted them to San Diego.
From San Diego, Monssen screened Carrier Division 26 across to Pearl Harbor and arrived on 8 May 1944. Through the rest of that month the crew rehearsed the Marianas landings. On 30 May she sailed with Task Group 52.16, continued on from Eniwetok, and reached Saipan on 15 June. At daybreak her guns opened a preparatory bombardment of Japanese positions on Green Beach 1, and she kept up close support of the assault until noon on 17 June. Later in June she supported Task Force 58 during the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Feutsch left Monssen on 21 July 1944. Charles Kniese Bergin relieved him that day. Everett George Sanderson commanded the destroyer from December 1944 until she was decommissioned in April 1946. Feutsch died in San Diego, California, on 1 April 1971.