Ships
- USS Shangri-La (CV-38) Captain from 26 November 1945 · Relieved on 5 July 1946
Edgar Allen Cruise was born on 20 March 1899 in Hebron, Thayer County, Nebraska. His parents were Michael Henry Cruise, the son of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon, and Emily Viola Beck, and he was one of fifteen children. He graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1922 and married Frances Elizabeth Crane in Philadelphia on 21 June 1922, a few weeks after graduation. They had a son, Edgar Jr.
A naval aviator, he was air officer of Saratoga when she covered the Guadalcanal landings on 7–8 August 1942 and fought the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 23–24 August. His Navy Cross cites the "highly efficient, judicious and foresighted planning" with which he ran her air department through those actions.
After the war he commanded the carrier Shangri-La. In the Korean War, as a rear admiral, he commanded a carrier division in Korean waters. On 11 June 1951, in Tokyo, he married Inez Dell Sharman Vaughn, widow of United Press's Asia chief Miles W. Vaughn. He retired as a vice admiral and died in Honolulu on 10 February 1990, at 90.