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NavSource Online: Escort Carrier Photo Archive

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USS RENDOVA   (CVE-114)
(later AKV-14)

Commanding Officers
Captain Richard Waynick ("Bud") Ruble USNA 1923 22 October 1945 –    July 1946 VADM
Captain Cecil Bachelder Gill USNA 1925    July 1946 –    January 1947  
Captain Clarence Orvil Taff USNA 1926    January 1947 –    January 1948 RADM
Captain Leonard James ("Ham") Dow USNA 1926    January 1948 –        1948 RADM
Captain Theodore Ridenour Frederick USNA 1926        1948 –        1949 RADM
Commander Thomas Francis Connolly USNA 1933        1949 – 27 January 1950 VADM
Decommissioned
Captain Evan Edwards Fickling USNA 1928 3 January 1951 – 3 January 1952  
Captain William Leverette Kabler USNA 1929 3 January 1952 – 17 March 1953 RADM
Captain Edward Clark Renfro USNA 1930 17 March 1953 – 21 December 1953 RADM
Captain William Ellis Gentner, Jr. USNA 1930 21 December 1953 –        1954? VADM
Captain William Paul Schroeder USNA 1932 1954? –        1955? RADM
? ?        1955? – 30 June 1955 ?

Sources: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler.

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