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USS Piedmont (AD-17)


Commanding Officers
01CDR. Malcolm Douglass. MacGregor5 January 1944 - 17 February 1945
02CAPT. Francis L. Robbins17 February 1945 - 16 March 1946
03CAPT. Russell Gruesbeck. Sturges16 March 1946 - 14 August 1947
04CAPT. Michaux, Woodson Vaughan14 August 1947 - 5 August 1948
05CAPT. Theodore H. Kobey5 August 1948 - 22 July 1949
06CAPT. Joseph Hawley Garvin22 July 1949 - 13 May 1950
07CAPT. James Russell Topper13 May 1950 - 24 January 1951
08CAPT. Charles F. Hooper24 January 1951 - 6 August 1952
09CAPT. Thurlow W. Davidson6 August 1952 - 17 August 1953
10CAPT. Roy Arthur Newton17 August 1953 - 13 October 1954
11CAPT. Lloyd Montague Mustin :VADM13 October 1954 - 17 December 1955
12CAPT. Charles Edwin Phillips17 December 1955 - 11 December 1956
13CAPT. James Gilbert Franklin11 December 1956 - 21 May 1958
14CAPT. Robert E. McElrath21 May 1958 - 9 October 1959
15CAPT. James Robert Payne9 October 1959 - 1 November 1960
16CAPT. William K. Ratliff1 November 1960 - 25 November 1961
17CAPT. Edward Boyce Jarman25 November 1961 - 27 October 1962
18CAPT. Dan Thomas Drain27 October 1962 - 2 November 1963
19CAPT. Joseph Henry Rayburn2 November 1963 - 6 September 1964
20CAPT. Lyle Ray Hays6 September 1964 - 24 October 1964
21CAPT. Daniel James O'Connell24 October 1964 - 24 January 1966
22CAPT. Joseph Eugene Feaster24 January 1966 - 27 December 1966
23CAPT. Henry Eugene Davies Jr.27 December 1966 - 25 September 1968
24CAPT. Thomas Joseph Quarton25 September 1968 - 28 November 1969
25CAPT. Mervyn Otis Geary28 November 1969 - 8 October 1971
26CAPT. Robert John Trott8 October 1971 - 11 October 1973
27CAPT. John Theodore (Ted) Parker Jr. :VADM11 October 1973 - 13 June 1975
28CAPT. Lyle Oliver Armell II13 June 1975 - 13 January 1978
29CAPT. William John Bredbeck13 January 1978 - 14 August 1979
30CAPT. George Tsantes Jr.14 August 1979 - 13 July 1981
31CAPT. Thomas M. McNicholas Jr.13 July 1981 - 30 September 1982
Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves. Photos courtesy Bill Gonyo

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