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NavSource Online: Escort Carrier Photo Archive
Courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret)

USS FANSHAW BAY   (CVE-70)
(later CVHE-70)

Commanding Officers
Captain Douglass Pollock ("Johnnie") Johnson USNA 1920 (1) 9 December 1943 – 10 January 1945 RADM
Captain Murr Edward Arnold USNA 1923 10 January 1945 – 12 September 1945 RADM
Captain Marshall Barton Gurney USNA 1926 12 September 1945 – 29 January 1946  
Commander Harold Sydney Bottomley, Jr. USNA 1937 29 January 1946 – 14 August 1946 CAPT
(1): Graduated on 6 June 1919 with the Class of 1920. Also known to his classmates as "Dippy" (for his first two initials) or "The Man."  [Back]

Source: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler. Ship's War History.

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