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AD-15 Prairie

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


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

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

Prairie Prairie Prairie Prairie

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

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