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Photo #: NH 95743

Commander Carrier Division Seventeen


Incoming and outgoing ComCarDiv17 with staff officers, on board the Division flagship, circa December 1946.
Those present are (from left to right):
Lieutenant Lewis L. Poynter, USN;
Major James E. Johnson, USMC;
Lieutenant Commander Edward J. Drozdz, USN;
Rear Admiral Dixwell Ketcham, USN, outgoing ComCarDiv17;
Captain Devere L. Day, USN;
Rear Admiral John M. Hoskins, incoming ComCarDiv17;
Commander Wilmer E. Rawie, USN;
Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton Lawrence, USMC, and
Lieutenant Commander William Moran, USN.
RAdm. Ketcham has written identities above each man.

Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 29 September 1999
Caption updated 16 October 2005