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Originally Posted by Kapitan Soniboy
Did any submarine during WWII have the same commanding officer through the entire war?
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An interesting question. I need to dust off my Clay as I think he has a list. By initial thoughts would be no. With the need to rotate and promote officers, I don't think the Navy would put one man in command of a submarine from 1939-1945. Even if we limit it to only the years of US involvement in WWII we still have 1941-1945 -- 3 years, 8.5 months roughly.
That is a long time for a commanding officer to have one position. Besides there are PCOs and Executives Officers waiting in line for their command.