Croft served on the USS Massachusetts for the rest of the war and ended up in command of the battleship while it was in mothballs at Norfolk. He was in command of the ship for six months and beset by a major case of boredom and saw no foreseeable sea billets forthcoming, so he resigned in December 1946.
Afterwards, he held jobs with Anaconda Wire and Cable Company in California then in Los Angels. In 1950, he moved to Chicago and joined Pyle National as plant manager. He was elected president of Pyle in 1955 and served until 1977.
After that, he owned six companies in the Chicago area.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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