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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive

Courtesy of CAPT Gene Oleson, CHC, USN (Ret)

USS PRINCETON   (CV-37)
(later CVA-37, CVS-37 and LPH-5)

Commanding Officers
CAPT John Madison ("Peg Leg") Hoskins USNA 1921-B 18 November 1945 – 31 December 1946 VADM
CAPT Francis Massie ("Frank") Hughes USNA 1923 31 December 1946 – 16 January 1948 RADM
CAPT Murr Edward Arnold USNA 1923 16 January 1948 – 22 January 1949 RADM
CAPT Albert Noble Perkins USNA 1924 22 January 1949 – 20 March 1949  
CDR Francis Edward Nuessle USNA 1932 20 March 1949 – 20 June 1949 RADM
Decommissioned
CAPT William Onahan Gallery USNA 1925 28 August 1950 – 11 August 1951 RADM
CAPT Paul David Stroop USNA 1926 11 August 1951 – 31 August 1952 VADM
CAPT William Right ("Holly") Hollingsworth USNA 1926 31 August 1952 – 18 March 1953 RADM
CAPT Otis Cockerill Gregg, Sr. USNA 1927 18 March 1953 – 15 February 1954  
CAPT John Clement Alderman USNA 1928 15 February 1954 – 15 January 1955 RADM
CAPT Henry Gabriel Sanchez USNA 1930 15 January 1955 – 14 January 1956 RADM
CAPT Wilmer Earle Gallaher USNA 1931 14 January 1956 – 19 January 1957 RADM
CAPT John Lester Chittenden USNA 1932 19 January 1957 – 14 January 1958  
CAPT William Lockhart Dawson USNA 1933 14 January 1958 –    May 1959  
Commanding Officers of USS Princeton (LPH-5)

Sources: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler. Skip Duett.

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