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USS BUNKER HILL   (CV-17)
(later CVA-17, CVS-17 and AVT-9)

Commanding Officers
Captain John Jennings Ballentine USNA 1918 (1) 25 May 1943 – 5 February 1944 ADM
Captain Thomas Powers Jeter USNA 1919 (2) 5 February 1944 – 21 August 1944 RADM
Captain Marshall Raymond Greer USNA 1919 (2) 21 August 1944 – 24 January 1945 VADM
Captain George Albert Seitz USNA 1920 (3) 24 January 1945 – 18 August 1945  
Captain Harold Letcher Meadow USNA 1921A (4) 18 August 1945 – 23 February 1946  
Captain Bowen Fails McLeod USNA 1930 23 February 1946 – 9 July 1947  (5)  
(1): Graduated on 28 June 1917 with the Class of 1918.  [Back]
(2): Graduated on 6 June 1918 with the Class of 1919.  [Back]
(3): Graduated on 6 June 1919 with the Class of 1920.  [Back]
(4): Graduated on 3 June 1920 with the first half of the Class of 1921.  [Back]
(5): CDR, later CAPT, Charles Edward Gibson (USNA 1937), XO, was in temporary command July–August 1946.  [Back]

Source: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler

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