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Contributed by Joe Radigan

USS SHANGRI-LA   (CV-38)
(later CVA-38 and CVS-38)

Commanding Officers
Captain James Duke Barner 1918 (1) 15 September 1944 – 16 July 1945 RADM
Captain Richard Francis Whitehead 1918 (2) 16 July 1945 – 26 November 1945 VADM
Captain Edgar Allen Cruise USNA 1922 26 November 1945 – 5 July 1946 VADM
Captain Wilson Patterson Cogswell USNA 1922 5 July 1946 – 21 July 1947  
Captain Richard Waynick ("Bud") Ruble USNA 1923 21 July 1947 – 18 August 1947 VADM
Commander James Alfred Thomas USNA 1932 18 August 1947 – 7 November 1947 RADM
Decommissioned
Captain Francis Lee Busey USNA 1926 10 May 1951 – 15 April 1952  
Captain Samuel Gavid ("Pat") Mitchell USNA 1927 15 April 1952 – 5 September 1952  
Captain Benjamin Barnes Compton Lovett USNA 1926 5 September 1952 – 3 October 1952 RADM
Commander Harry Edward Cook, Jr. USNA 1934 3 October 1952 – 14 November 1952 CAPT
Decommissioned
Captain Roscoe Lee Newman USNA 1930 10 January 1955 – 20 December 1955  
Captain Charles Williams Lord USNA 1930 20 December 1955 – 20 November 1956  
Captain Francis Drake Foley USNA 1932 20 November 1956 – 14 September 1957 RADM
Captain Wallace Clark Short, Jr. USNA 1932 14 September 1957 – 13 September 1958 RADM
Captain Keith Eikenberry Taylor USNA 1934 13 September 1958 – 7 July 1959  
Captain John Paul Preston USNA 1936 7 July 1959 – 3 April 1960  
Captain Fillmore Bolling Gilkeson USNA 1937 3 April 1960 – 1 April 1961 RADM
Captain Herbert Norman Houck NAVCAD 1938 1 April 1961 – 14 March 1962  
Captain Robert Wheeler Rynd USNA 1938 14 March 1962 – 14 February 1963  
Captain Edward Lawrence Dashiell, Jr. USNA 1939 14 February 1963 – 5 February 1964  
Captain Irvin George ("Ike") Peters USNA 1940 5 February 1964 – 5 February 1965  
Captain Ralph Lincoln ("Bull") Werner USNR 1941 5 February 1965 – 16 August 1965  
Captain Walter Edward Clarke NAVCAD 1940 16 August 1965 – 21 August 1965  
Captain August William ("Bill") Elliott, Jr. USNA 1941 21 August 1965 – 23 September 1966  
Captain Hope Lamar Strong, Jr. USNA 1943 (3) 23 September 1966 – 15 September 1967  
Captain Robert Paul ("Bob") Coogan USNA 1944 (4) 15 September 1967 – 17 October 1968 VADM
Captain Wayne Stuart Nelson USNA 1945 (5) 17 October 1968 – 12 August 1969 RADM
Captain Herbert R. Poorman USNA 1945 (5) 12 August 1969 – 6 September 1970  
Captain Hoyt Porter Maulden USNR 1945 6 September 1970 – 23 April 1971  
Commander Thornwell Frank Rush USNA 1951 23 April 1971 – 30 July 1971 CAPT
(1) Enlisted in the Navy in 1907. Got a commission as an Ensign in 1918.  [Back]
(2) Enlisted in the Navy in 1912. Got a commission as an Ensign in 1918.  [Back]
(3) Graduated on 19 June 1942 with the Class of 1943.   [Back]
(4) Graduated on 9 June 1943 with the Class of 1944.   [Back]
(5) Graduated on 7 June 1944 with the Class of 1945.   [Back]

Sources: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler; Skip Duett.
USS Shangri-La CV / CVA / CVS-38, by Bob Ketenheim, Historian, USS Shangri-La Association.
Photo of CAPT Strong courtesy of Wayne VanDerVoort.


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