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USS BATAAN   (CVL-29)
(later AVT-4)

Commanding Officers
Captain Valentine Hixon Schaeffer USNA 1919 (1) 17 November 1943 – 26 August 1944 RADM
Captain John Postell Heath USNA 1921-B 26 August 1944 – 5 June 1945 RADM
Captain Ward Carr Gilbert USNA 1921-B 5 June 1945 – 22 March 1946  
Commander William Byfield Short, Jr. USNA 1932 22 March 1946 – 15 November 1946 CAPT
Lieutenant Commander William Hall Davison NAVCAD 1939 15 November 1946 – 11 February 1947 CAPT
Decommissioned
Captain Edgar Tilghman Neale USNA 1924 13 May 1950 – 17 April 1951  
Captain William Miller, Jr. USNA 1926 17 April 1951 – 14 April 1952 RADM
Captain Harry Ray Horney USNA 1927 14 April 1952 – 10 March 1953  
Captain Shirley Snow Miller   [Biography] USNA 1927 10 March 1953 – 29 January 1954 RADM
Commander Raymond John Pflum NAVCAD? 1936 29 January 1954 – 9 April 1954 RADM
(1) Graduated on 6 June 1918 with the Class of 1919.   [Back]

Sources: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler; Skipp Duett.
Photo & bio of RADM S.S. Miller courtesy of his son, Robert G. Miller.


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