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Patch courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret)
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| Commanding Officers | ||
| CAPT Apollo Soucek | USNA '21 | 27 October 1945 - 2 March 1946 |
| CAPT Herbert Ed Regan | USNA '22 | 2 March 1946 - 15 November 1946 |
| CAPT John Pinckney Wheeler Vest | USNA '22 | 15 November 1946 - 7 November 1947 |
| CAPT Thomas Binney Williamson | USNA '23 | 7 November 1947 - 3 August 1948 |
| CAPT Harry Donald Felt | USNA '23 | 3 August 1948 - 11 July 1949 |
| CAPT Clarence Eugene Ekstrom | USNA '24 | 11 July 1949 - 27 July 1950 |
| CAPT William Virginius Davis, Jr. | USNA '24 | 27 July 1950 - 28 July 1951 |
| CAPT Fitzhugh Lee | USNA '26 | 28 July 1951 - 26 July 1952 |
| CAPT George Whelan Anderson, Jr. | USNA '27 | 26 July 1952- 22 May 1953 |
| CAPT John Smith ("Jimmy") Thatch | USNA '27 | 22 May 1953 - 23 April 1954 |
| Decommissioned | ||
| CAPT John T. ("Chick") Hayward | USNA '30 | 6 April 1956 - 1 October 1956 |
| CAPT Thomas Walton Hopkins | USNA '32 | 1 October 1956 - 2 October 1957 |
| CAPT Frederick Lincoln Ashworth | USNA '33 | 2 October 1957 - 3 July 1958 |
| CAPT Ralph Louis Shifley | USNA '33 | 3 July 1958 - 8 August 1959 |
| CAPT Theodore Hugh Winters | USNA '37 | 8 August 1959 - 10 June 1960 |
| CAPT Edward William Hessel | USNA '37 | 10 June 1960 - 16 July 1961 |
| CAPT Edward Lee Anderson | USNA '38 | 16 July 1961 - 1 June 1962 |
| CAPT Walter Edward Clarke | NAVCAD | 1 June 1962 - 20 July 1963 |
| CAPT Gerald Edward Miller | USNA '41 | 20 July 1963 - 25 July 1964 |
| CAPT Malcolm Winfield Cagle | USNA '41 | 25 July 1964 - 27 August 1965 |
| CAPT Charles Lee Burbage | USNA '41 | 27 August 1965 - 28 August 1966 |
| CAPT George Clyde Talley, Jr. | USNA '44 | 28 August 1966 - 5 January 1967 |
| CAPT James David Ramage | USNA '39 | 5 January 1967 - 12 January 1967 |
| CAPT Martin G. O'Neill | NAVCAD | 12 January 1967 - 20 June 1967 |
| CAPT Gordon S. Hodgson | NAVCAD | 20 June 1967 - 21 August 1968 |
| CAPT James Otis Mayo | NAVCAD | 21 August 1968 - 9 September 1969 |
| CAPT Harry Seagrove Sellers | NAVCAD | 9 September 1969 - 3 October 1970 |
| CAPT John Edward Hansen | USNA '46 | 3 October 1970 - 10 September 1971 |
| CAPT Charles John Youngblade | USNA '49 | 10 September 1971 - 12 April 1973 |
| CAPT James Brendon Morin | NAVCAD | 12 April 1973 - 20 December 1974 |
| CAPT Crawford A. Easterling | NAVCAD | 20 December 1974 - 20 June 1976 |
| CAPT Richard Peter Bordone | USNA '54 | 20 June 1976 - 13 June 1977 |
| CAPT Everett F. Rollins, Jr. | USNR | 13 June 1977 - 1 October 1977 |
Sources: USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVB/CVA/CV-42 Reunion (http://www.ussfdrcv42reunion.com);
Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler
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