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AD-15 Prairie

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USS Prairie (AD-15) Miscellaneous Memorabilia
Prairie

An early USS Prairie bookend.
Base engraved May-27-1942.
Courtesy Ed Velasquez.
Prairie

Another early USS Prairie bookend. Matching bookend lost in New Orleans flood
Courtesy Clifford A. Guidry Jr., for his father Clifford A. Guidry USS Prairie 1944.
Prairie

USS Prairie brass on mahogany plaque. Courtesy Clifford A. Guidry Jr., for his father Clifford A. Guidry USS Prairie 1944.
Prairie

Ships patch
Prairie
Ships patch
commemorating
fifty years service to the fleet.
Contributed by
Mike Smolinski
Prairie
Drawing of USS Prairie and prairie schooner
Contributed by
Gene Briggs for his uncle
Stanley Floyd Conley BMC USN Ret. USS Prairie


USS Prairie (AD-15) Welcome Aboard pamphlet - 1983

Contributed by Russ Padden,
Courtesy Don Scott YNCS USN Ret.

Prairie Prairie Prairie Prairie

Commanding Officers
01CAPT. John Beresford Wynn Waller :RADM05.08.1940 - 05.10.1941
02CAPT. Robert Walton Fleming05.10.1941 - 27.11.1942
03CAPT. Francis Paxton Old :VADM27.11.1942 - 05.07.1944
04CAPT. O. A. Kneeland05.07.1944 - 19.06.1945
05CAPT. Francis Stephenson Gibson19.06.1945 - 07.10.1945
06CAPT. Herbert Keeney Fenn07.10.1945 - 21.02.1946
07CAPT. Lewis Richard McDowell :RADM21.02.1946 - 15.11.1947
08CAPT. Forrest Close 15.11.1947 - 27.11.1948
09CAPT. T. E. Kelly27.11.1948 - 29.10.1949
10CAPT. Joseph Bryan Renn :RADM29.10.1949 - 03.11.1950
11CAPT. Kenton Edson Price03.11.1950 - 14.03.1952
12CAPT. John Rowland McKnight Jr. :RADM14.03.1952 - 28.02.1953
13CAPT. James Hillman Newsome28.02.1953 - 15.08.1953
14CAPT. P. Kelsye15.08.1953 - 24.09.1953
15CAPT. Audley Lyne Warburton :RADM24.09.1953 - 12.03.1955
16CAPT. Robert S. Fahle12.03.1955 - 30.11.1956
17CAPT. Charles Maurice Sugarman30.11.1956 - 25.10.1957
18CAPT. Robert J. Ovrom25.10.1957 - 27.09.1958
19CAPT. Anton Renkl Gallaher27.09.1958 - 24.10.1959
20CAPT. Dwight Lyman Moody 24.10.1959 - 28.09.1960
21CAPT. William Stephen Finn28.09.1960 - 03.05.1962
22CAPT. Kenneth Barth Brown03.05.1962 - 14.06.1963
23CAPT. Kenneth Steen14.06.1963 - 11.07.1964
24CAPT. John Blount Davis Jr. :RADM11.07.1964 - 05.03.1965
25CAPT. Robert Buel Pettitt05.03.1965 - 30.06.1966
26CAPT. Harry Risch Jr.30.06.1966 - 11.04.1967
27CAPT. Harry Cline Dittler Jr.01.04.1967 - 18.07.1968
28CDR. Donald Patrick Nellis18.07.1968 - 07.10.1968
29LCDR. Glenn D. Bates07.10.1968 - 22.10.1968
30CAPT. Russell Armin Vollertsen22.10.1968 - 13.12.1968
31CAPT. Robert D. Sante13.12.1968 - 09.01.1970
32CDR. R. G. Cooper09.01.1970 - 27.01.1970
33CAPT. Martin E. Soper27.01.1970 - 31.07.1971
34CAPT. James Own Lyon31.07.1971 - 25.01.1973
35CAPT. Russell Armin Vollertsen25.01.1973 - 13.09.1974
36CAPT. Floyd Robert Muck13.09.1974 - 17.12.1976
37CAPT. William A. Miller17.12.1976 - 09.12.1978
38CAPT. Raymond Earl Helms Jr.09.12.1978 - 22.11.1980
39CAPT. Guy Andre Archambault22.11.1980 - 24.11.1982
40CAPT. Steven James Duich24.11.1982 - 28.06.1985
41CAPT. Thomas Stephenson Althouse28.06.1985 - 24.06.1987
42CAPT. Michael Francis Landers24.06.1987 - 07.07.1989
43CAPT. Robert Leland Hattan 07.07.1989 - 26.07.1991
44CAPT. Wilton Robert Stewart26.07.1991 - 26.03.1993
Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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