Ships
- USS Ammen (DD-527) Captain from 14 June 1945
George Van Rogers was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy when he became captain of USS Ammen (DD-527) on 14 June 1945. The ship was a Fletcher-class destroyer, built by Bethlehem Steel at San Francisco, launched on 17 September 1942, and commissioned on 20 March 1943. She was the second Navy ship to carry the name of Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, a Civil War officer who later directed the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Bureau of Navigation.
Rogers relieved James Harvey Brown. The destroyer's earlier captains were John Cheshire Daniel, who had her from commissioning, and Henry Williams. Under those three officers she had screened forces from Alaskan waters through the western Pacific and had covered the landings at Okinawa. In April 1945 a Japanese bomb burst close on her starboard quarter and wounded eight of her men. The campaigns that brought USS Ammen (DD-527) eight battle stars for the Second World War were fought while Daniel, Williams, and Brown held command.
Rogers took the ship in the last weeks of the Pacific war, while she was still working from Okinawa. After Japan surrendered, USS Ammen (DD-527) left Okinawa on 7 September 1945 and headed for the Japanese home islands. She entered Nagasaki on 15 September and shifted to Sasebo on 21 September. She stayed in Japanese waters through the autumn.
On 17 November 1945 USS Ammen (DD-527) sailed for the United States by way of Midway, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, and the Panama Canal. She reached Charleston, South Carolina, on 23 December 1945. Rogers remained in command while the crew laid the destroyer up. On 15 April 1946 she was decommissioned and placed in reserve, and his tour as captain ended that day.