NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive
Contributed by Scott Dyben.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives (photo # 80-G-463357)
| Commanding Officers | |||
| Captain Newton Harris White, Jr. | USNA 1907 | 12 May 1938 – 21 December 1938 | |
| Captain Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall | USNA 1910 | 21 December 1938 – 29 May 1940 | VADM |
| Captain Archibald Hugh Douglas | USNA 1908 | 29 May 1940 – 29 May 1940 (1) | |
| Captain Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall | USNA 1910 | 29 May 1940 – 21 March 1941 | VADM |
| Captain George Dominic Murray | USNA 1911 | 21 March 1941 – 30 June 1942 | ADM |
| Captain Arthur Cayley Davis | USNA 1915 | 30 June 1942 – 21 October 1942 | ADM |
| Captain Osborne Bennett Hardison | USNA 1916 | 21 October 1942 – 7 April 1943 | VADM |
| Captain Carlos Wilhelm Wieber | USNA 1918 | 7 April 1943 – 16 April 1943 | RADM |
| Captain Samuel Paul ("Sam," "Cy") Ginder | USNA 1916 | 16 April 1943 – 7 November 1943 | RADM |
| Captain Matthias Bennett Gardner | USNA 1919 (2) | 7 November 1943 – 10 July 1944 | ADM |
| Commander Thomas James Hamilton | USNA 1927 | 10 July 1944 – 29 July 1944 | RADM |
| Captain Cato Douglas Glover, Jr. | USNA 1920 (3) | 29 July 1944 – 14 December 1944 | ADM |
| Captain Grover Budd Hartley Hall | USNA 1920 (3) | 14 December 1944 – 25 September 1945 | RADM |
| Captain William Lehigh Rees | USNA 1921-A (4) | 25 September 1945 – 20 February 1946 | VADM |
| Captain Francis Emerson Bardwell | USNA 1930 | 20 February 1946 – 10 June 1946 | |
| Commander Conrad Winfield Craven | USNA 1933 | 10 June 1946 – 31 January 1947 | CAPT |
| Commander Lewis Farling Davis | USNR 19?? | 31 January 1947 – 17 February 1947 | |
| Note 1: CAPT Douglas was in command of Enterprise
for just four hours (1504–1904) and was then ordered detached to command USS Saratoga
(CV-3), whose CO, CAPT R.P. Molten, Jr., had died the day before. [Back] Note 2: Graduated on 6 June 1918 with the class of 1919. [Back] Note 3: Graduated on 6 June 1919 with the class of 1920. [Back] Note 4: Graduated on 3 June 1920, with the first half of the Class of 1921. [Back] | |||
Sources: Robert M. Cieri; Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler; NARA.
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