Commanding Officers
- Captain Edmund W. Burrough (15 June 1942 – June 1943) left after the battle of Blackett Straight
- Captain Andrew G. Shepard (19 June 1943 – August 1944)
- Captain Herbert G. Hopwood (14 August 1944 – July 1945)
- Captain Charles J. Maguire (3 July 1945 – December 1945)
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