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USS SANTEE (ACV-29)

**(formerly AO-29 and AVG-29; later CVE-29 and CVHE-29)**

Commanding Officers
ACV-29 / CVE-29
Commander William Dodge Sample	USNA 1919 (1)	24 August 1942 - 22 May 1943	RADM
Captain Harold Foster Fick	USNA 1920 (2)	22 May 1943 - 11 July 1944	RADM
Captain Robert Edwin Blick, Jr.	USNA 1922	11 July 1944 - 27 January 1945	VADM
Captain John Valdemar Peterson	USNA 1923	27 January 1945 - 21 February 1946	RADM
Captain Jesse Samuel McClure	USNA 1926	21 February 1946 - 21 October 1946
Note 1: Graduated on 6 June 1918, with the Class of 1919. [Back] Note 2: Graduated on 6 June 1919, with the Class of 1920. [Back]

Sources:

History of USS Santee, by ENS Jaquelin S. Holliday, USNR

History of USS Santee, Office of Naval Records and History, Ships Histories Section, Navy Department
(Special thanks to ABCS Walter E. Skeldon, who submitted both histories)

Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler. Skip Duett

Archives II Reference Section (NWCT2R), Textual Archives Services Division, NARA

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