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USS PALAU   (CVE-122)
(later AKV-22)

CVE-122 ship's patch
Patch contributed by Gerd Matthes, Germany

Commanding Officers
Captain Willis Everett Cleaves USNA 1924 15 January 1946 –    July 1946 (1) RADM
Commander Thomas Aloysius Christopher USNA 1933    July 1946 –    July 1946 (1) RADM
Captain Cameron Briggs USNA 1925    July 1946 – 19 July 1946 (1) RADM
Captain Ford Newton Taylor, Jr. USNA 1926 19 July 1946 –        1947 (1) RADM
Captain Jack Clayton Renard USNA 1928        1947 –    June 1948 RADM
Captain Robert Ellington Dixon USNA 1927    June 1948 –    June 1949 RADM
? ?    June 1949 –    1952 ?
Captain Thomas Barbee Neblett USNA 1927        1952 –    July 1953 RADM
Captain Frank Blake Miller USNA 1930    July 1953 –    July 1954 RADM
Note 1: CAPT Cleaves had requested retirement. He was placed on the retired list, as a Rear Admiral, in July 1946, and was relieved by the Executive Officer, CDR Christopher, pending the reporting aboard of CAPT Briggs. CAPT Taylor relieved Briggs on 19 July, at Recife.  [Back]

Source: Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler

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