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USS POINT CRUZ   (CVE-119)
(later AKV-19)

Commanding Officers
Captain Douglas Turner Day, Jr. USNA 1924 16 October 1945 - 27 November 1946 RADM
Captain Donald Swain MacMahan USNA 1923 27 November 1946 - 22 April 1947
Commander William Astrup Smyth USNA 1934 22 April 1947 - 30 June 1947
Decommissioned
Captain Horace Bushnell Butterfield USNA 1922 26 July 1951 -    December 1951 RADM
Captain John Walter Davison USNA 1929    December 1951 -    November 1952
Captain Clayton Clifton ("Spud") Marcy USNA 1929    November 1952 -    May 1953
Captain John Tucker ("Chick") Hayward USNA 1930    May 1953 - 17 May 1954 VADM
Captain Frederick James Brush USNA 1931 17 May 1954 - 14 August 1955 RADM
Captain Alfred Richard ("Dick") Matter USNA 1932 14 August 1955 - 3 March 1956 RADM
Commander William Harvey Munson NAVCAD/V-5 1939 3 March 1956 - 31 August 1956 CAPT

Special thanks to the USS Point Cruz CVE119 Association;
Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler;
Dorothy Davison Comer and CDR Henry Davison, USN (Ret.)


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