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USS POINT CRUZ   (CVE-119)
(later AKV-19)

Commanding Officers
Captain Douglas T. Day ? 16 October 1945 - 27 November 1946
Captain Donald Swain McMahan ? 27 November 1946 - 22 April 1947
Commander William Astrup Smyth ? 22 April 1947 - 30 June 1947
Decommissioned
Captain Horace Bushnell Butterfield ? 26 July 1951 -    December 1951
Captain John Walter Davison USNA 1929    December 1951 -    November 1952
Captain Clayton Clifton Marcy ?    November 1952 -    July (?) 1953
Captain John Tucker ("Chick") Hayward USNA 1930    July (?) 1953 - 17 May 1954 VADM
Captain Frederick James Brush ? 17 May 1954 - 14 August 1955 RADM
Captain Alfred Richard Matter ? 14 August 1955 - 31 August 1956 RADM

Special thanks to the USS Point Cruz CVE119 Association;
Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler;
Dorothy Davison Comer and CDR Henry Davison, USN (Ret.)

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