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Courtesy of Gerd Matthes

USS NEHENTA BAY   (CVE-74)
(later CVU-74 and AKV-24)

Commanding Officers
Captain Horace Bushnell Butterfield USNA 1922 3 January 1944 – 27 December 1944 RADM
Captain Edward Orrick McDonnell USNA 1912/
USNR 1920 (1)
27 December 1944 – 25 September 1945 VADM
Captain Otho Perry Smoot, Jr. USNA 1926 25 September 1945 – 15 May 1946  
(1): Resigned in January 1920 and entered the active Reserve.  [Back]

Source: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler.


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