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USS SUWANNEE (ACV-27)

**(formerly AO-33 and AVG-27; later CVE-27 and CVHE-27)**

Commanding Officers
AO-33
Commander Joseph Robert Lannom	USNA 1919 (1)	16 July 1941 – 21 February 1942	RADM
ACV-27 / CVE-27
Captain Joseph James ("Jocko") Clark	USNA 1918 (2)	24 September 1942 – 21 January 1943	ADM
Captain Frederick William McMahon	USNA 1920 (3)	21 January 1943 – 30 December 1943	VADM
Captain William David Johnson, Jr.	USNA 1921-B	30 December 1943 – 8 December 1944	VADM
Captain Delbert Strother Cornwell	USNA 1922	8 December 1944 – 2 September 1945	RADM
Captain Charles Clarke McDonald	USNA 1924	2 September 1945 – 2 October 1945
Commander Schermerhorn Van Mater	USNA 1931	2 October 1945 – 16 November 1945	CAPT
Captain Elton Council Parker	USNA 1924	16 November 1945 – 29 March 1946	RADM
Commander John Murphy De Vane, Jr.	USNA 1937	29 March 1946 – 1 September 1946	CAPT
Commander Stanley Erdman Ruehlow	USNA 1935	1 September 1946 – 8 January 1947	CAPT

(1) Graduated on 6 June 1918 with the Class of 1919. [Back] (2) Graduated on 28 June 1917 with the Class of 1918. [Back] (3) Graduated on 6 June 1919 with the Class of 1920. [Back]

Source: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler. Skip Duett.
Photo of RADM Johnson courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, via Darryl Baker.

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