USN · Captain

Moore, Benjamin Eugene Jr.

Portrait via NavSource Naval History (https://www.navsource.org/archives/03/../02/people/moore_benjamin_e_jr.jpg); presumed official U.S. Navy photograph, public domain as a U.S. government work. Status not individually verified.

Ships

USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) Captain, 21 January 1945 – 19 October 1945

Captain Benjamin Eugene Moore, Jr., was the Naval Academy class of 1927. He took Thetis Bay (CVE-90) on 21 January 1945, for the replenishment trips with the fast carriers that summer and for the start of the voyages that brought men home. Allen Smith, Jr. relieved him on 19 October 1945.