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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 |
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(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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