U.S.S. Wyoming (WW2)

[Peter Gassmann]

Hello All

here is a cover addressed to Commander E.C. Rogers, U.S.S. Wyoming, in Sept 1941. Wikipedia just tells me that the ship became a training ship in Nov. 1941. Does anyone have information on E.C. Rogers?

best regards, Peter

[Alan Baker]

I have found a reference that in November 1941 he took command of the USS Kitty Hawk, a merchant vessel converted to an aircraft transport. On 16th December she sailed for Pearl Harbour taking aircraft to replace losses sustained in the Japanese attack. She spent the rest of the war shuttling supplies between the US and Hawaii and later New Caledonia, but it is not clear if Rogers was still in command

The website is the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

In 1952 he sat on the US Congress Committee on Appropriations with the rank of Captain (Retd)

[Howard Weinert]

Elbert Charles Rogers was born in Iowa in 1896. He entered the US Naval Academy in 1914 and graduated in 1917 in the middle of his class. He made Lt in 1920, Lt. Cmdr. in 1931, Cmdr. in 1938,
and Capt. in 1942. He retired in 1950. He was on the USS wyoming (a training ship) as late as Nov. 1941 and then commanded the Kitty Hawk. For much of the 1930s he was stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

[Peter Gassmann]

many thanks!
best regards, Peter