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USS LANGLEY    (CVL-27)


Commanding Officers
Captain Wallace Myron ("Gotch") Dillon USNA 1918 (1) 31 August 1943 – 27 September 1944 RADM
Captain John Fred Wegforth 1921 (2) 27 September 1944 – 10 August 1945 RADM
Captain Herbert Edward Regan USNA 1922 10 August 1945 – 15 January 1946 RADM
Commander Walter Clement Wingard, Jr. USNA 1930 15 January 1946 – 14 February 1946  
Commander Henry Alexander Stewart ? ? 14 February 1946 – 11 February 1947  
(1) Graduated on 28 June 1917 with the Class of 1918.   [Back]
(2) CAPT Wegforth was a "Mustang," i.e., a commissioned officer who began his career as an enlisted man.   [Back]

Special thanks to: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler; Skipp Duett; Chris Marks; Robert J. Cressman.


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