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Courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret)
(bluejacket.com)

USS ANTIETAM   (CV-36)
(later CVA-36 and CVS-36)

Commanding Officers
CAPT James Robert Tague USNA 1920 (1) 28 January 1945 – 5 November 1945  
CAPT Joseph Brantley Dunn USNA 1922 5 November 1945 – 31 October 1946 RADM
CAPT William Henry Hamilton USNA 1923 31 October 1946 – 13 October 1947 RADM
CAPT William Donald Anderson USNA 1923 13 October 1947 – 1 September 1948 RADM
CAPT John Valdemar Peterson USNA 1923 1 September 1948 – 2 May 1949 RADM
CDR Everett Olin Rigsbee, Jr. USNA 1930 2 May 1949 – 12 May 1949 (2)  
CDR Carter Brooke Jennings USNA 1935 12 May 1949 – 24 May 1949 CAPT
CDR Edmond George Konrad USNA 1932 24 May 1949 – 21 June 1949 RADM
Decommissioned
CAPT George John Dufek USNA 1925 17 January 1951 – 6 May 1952 RADM
CAPT Benjamin Barnes Compton Lovett USNA 1926 6 May 1952 – 5 September 1952 RADM
CAPT Samuel Gavid ("Pat") Mitchell USNA 1927 5 September 1952 – 31 July 1953  
CAPT Samuel Marion Pickering USNA 1927 31 July 1953 – 2 July 1954  
CAPT Carl Emil Giese, Sr. USNA 1929 2 July 1954 – 30 June 1955  
CAPT Francis Emerson Bardwell USNA 1930 30 June 1955 – 4 September 1956  
CAPT William Alvah Thorn USNA 1932 4 September 1956 – 4 September 1957  
CAPT Robert Ward Cooper USNA 1931 4 September 1957 – 27 June 1958  
CAPT James Arthur Smith USNA 1933 27 June 1958 – 26 June 1959  
CAPT Charles Herman Turner USNA 1935 26 June 1959 – 2 September 1960  
CAPT Paul Ellsworth Hartmann USNA 1937 2 September 1960 – 15 June 1961 RADM
CAPT James Houston Armstrong NAVCAD 1938 15 June 1961 – 8 January 1963  
CAPT William James Gray USNA 1943 (3) 8 January 1963 – 8 May 1963  
Notes:
(1) Graduated on 6 June 1919 with the Class of 1920.  [Back]
(2) Died on 12 May 1949.  [Back]
(3) Graduated on 19 June 1942 with the Class of 1943.  [Back]

Sources: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler. Skip Duett.


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