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Patch at left courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret) (bluejacket.com)
Crest at right courtesy of USS Saratoga Association

USS SARATOGA   (CVA-60)
(later CV-60)

Commanding Officers
Captain Robert Joseph Stroh USNA 1930 14 April 1956 – 1 December 1956 VADM
Captain Robert Brevard Moore USNA 1932 1 December 1956 – 19 December 1957 RADM
Captain Alfred Richard ("Dick") Matter USNA 1932 19 December 1957 – 16 October 1958 RADM
Captain John Joseph Hyland, Jr. USNA 1934 16 October 1958 – 2 November 1959 ADM
Captain Allan Foster Fleming USNA 1936 2 November 1959 – 9 November 1960 RADM
Captain Roger William Mehle USNA 1937 9 November 1960 – 9 November 1961 RADM
Captain Valdemar Greene ("V.G.") Lambert NAVCAD 1938 9 November 1961 – 3 November 1962 RADM
Captain Frederick Thomas Moore, Jr. NAVCAD 1939 3 November 1962 – 28 September 1963
Captain John Edwin ("Tiger One") Lacouture USNA 1940 28 September 1963 – 2 October 1964
Captain Jack Milton James USNA 1942 (1) 2 October 1964 – 2 September 1965 RADM
Captain Harold Fred Lang USNA 1943 (2) 2 September 1965 – 7 October 1966
Captain Joseph Merit Tully, Jr. USNA 1942 (1) 7 October 1966 – 7 September 1967
Captain John Henry Dick NAVCAD 1943 7 September 1967 – 4 April 1969 RADM
Captain Warren Harold O'Neil USNA 1945 (3) 4 April 1969 – 8 August 1970 RADM
Captain Dewitt Leroy Freeman USNR 1945 8 August 1970 – 7 August 1971 RADM
Captain James Richard ("Sandy") Sanderson   [Biography] USNR 1946 7 August 1971 – 16 February 1973 VADM
Captain Louis Covington Page, Jr. USNR 1949 16 February 1973 – 12 September 1974
Captain Robert Francis ("Bob," "Dick"?) Dunn USNA 1951 12 September 1974 – 11 September 1976 VADM
Captain Charles Bryan Hunter USNA 1954 11 September 1976 – 4 February 1978 RADM
Captain Edward Holmes Martin USNA 1954 4 February 1978 – 14 July 1979 VADM
Captain James Henry ("Jim") Flatley III USNA 1956 14 July 1979 – 1 October 1981 RADM
Captain Leonard Gordon Perry USNR 1957 1 October 1981 – 11 November 1983 RADM
Captain John Kenneth Ready AOC 1961 11 November 1983 – 26 March 1985 VADM
Captain Jerry Lee Unruh NAVCAD 1957 26 March 1985 – 7 August 1986 VADM
Captain David Eugene Frost   [Biography] USNA 1963 7 August 1986 – 5 March 1988 VADM
Captain James Timothy Matheny USNR 1961 5 March 1988 – 26 April 1990
Captain Joseph Scott Mobley   [Biography] USNA 1966 26 April 1990 – 18 April 1991 VADM
Captain James Michael Drager AOC 1966 18 April 1991 – 4 December 1992
Captain Donald Alan Weiss   [Biography] USNA 1968 4 December 1992 – 20 February 1994 RADM
Captain William Henry Kennedy AOC 1965 20 February 1994 – 20 August 1994
(1)  Graduated on 19 December 1941 with the Class of 1942.   [Back]
(2)  Graduated on 19 June 1942 with the Class of 1943.   [Back]
(3)  Graduated on 7 June 1944 with the Class of 1945.   [Back]

Source: USS Saratoga (CV-60) Decommissioning Program, contributed by Robert M. Cieri;
Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler.
Photo of CAPT Flatley courtesy of Harold Tollison, PH3, USS Saratoga, 1978–80.


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