USS Hancock Association Home Page

The Association Was Born... 

In 1978, those who served on the Hannah gathered in Atlantic City, New Jersey, reunited for the first time, and resulted in the founding of the USS Hancock Association 

by "plank owner",

 Edmund Orchowski

 

  OUR MISSION:

  To honor and perpetuate

  the memory of the

  USS Hancock CV/CVA-19

  and the men who served aboard her.

 

 

Departments

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About the Association

The Quarterdeck Log

History of the Hancock

Links and Rings

Photo Gallery - Volume 1

Photo Gallery - Volume 2

Request the Hannah News

Reunion Information

Stories

The Ship's Store

Contact Us about this Site

 

Please submit all stories to Don Mettler.  Please include pictures and all data necessary to make a good story.  Include your name, time and place, etc.  All submittals will be reviewed for content and if the material is consistent with the purpose and intent of this site before being posted.

Story Index

The following is a listing of stories submitted that are in one way or another associated with the

USS Hancock, CV/CVA-19.

These stories have been reviewed for content and edited before being posted on this Web Site.

 

Submitted by:  Elaine "Lainie" Goodwin.  "I obtained a POW bracelet at the age of 14, for Lt. Cmdr. Paul E. Galanti who was shot down on June 17, 1966. Paul was....

Submitted by: Paul Galanti.    "I received something like 3,000 of the bracelets while recuperating at Portsmouth Naval Hospital.....

  Submitted by:  Nancy Peham, daughter of S2c Peham.   I have a photocopy of the February, 1945 issue of the 'Hanalog' .....

  Submitted by:  Tom Wimberly.  On the 1955-56 WesPac Cruise of the USS KEARSARGE, (CV-33), I was a "nugget" (first cruise).....

 
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