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My ship, ten years after I left her....we ALL have to GO sometime, don't we...? =|

Eyemustdig, if you were you aboard in 1966, then you saw action while on Yankee Station in Viet Nam, where she received a Navy Unit Commendation. The Hancock also saw action in Halsey's 3rd Fleet during WWII. She survived the terrible typhoon that cost the lives of almost 800 tin can sailors. Three destroyers were sunk in seas that were coming over Hancock's flight deck, 55 feet above her water line. The Hancock was hit by a Kamikaze on 25 November 1944, but the fires were quickly put out and the ship repaired. Planes off the Hancock flew over Tokyo Harbor when the surrender was being signed on board the USS Missouri. She was deployed in Viet Nam on Yankee Station, and received a Naval Unit Commendation for her service there. She was involved in the Viet Nam war until the end, in 1975 she helped with the evacuation of Siagon. Late 1975 she returned to the states, and in January of 1976 she was decommissioned and stricken from the navy list, and sold for scrap, some of which was sold to Japan, and was made into cars. So it's possible that there people in the united states driving Japanese cars that were once a part of a heroic navy ship.

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The Hancock being hit by a Kamikaze 25 November 1944. The aircraft dove out of the sun, but gunners on the ship damaged it to the point that 300 feet above the ship the airplane broke apart and part of the fuselage and a wing hit the flight deck, and burst into flames.
 

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I'm sure it cornered well :censored:
 

Yeah... if it started to lean over OR fall over at a light... sheesh

I mean what is all that crap. heh
 

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They missed a word - We want MORE Beer!
 

I'm currently visiting Potter County, Pennsylvania for week of metal detecting.
It is the middle of October and the trees haven't really gotten close to peak color change.
I'm just enjoying the weather and time out in the country.
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Eyemustdig, if you were you aboard in 1966, then you saw action while on Yankee Station in Viet Nam, where she received a Navy Unit Commendation. The Hancock also saw action in Halsey's 3rd Fleet during WWII. She survived the terrible typhoon that cost the lives of almost 800 tin can sailors. Three destroyers were sunk in seas that were coming over Hancock's flight deck, 55 feet above her water line. The Hancock was hit by a Kamikaze on 25 November 1944, but the fires were quickly put out and the ship repaired. Planes off the Hancock flew over Tokyo Harbor when the surrender was being signed on board the USS Missouri. She was deployed in Viet Nam on Yankee Station, and received a Naval Unit Commendation for her service there. She was involved in the Viet Nam war until the end, in 1975 she helped with the evacuation of Siagon. Late 1975 she returned to the states, and in January of 1976 she was decommissioned and stricken from the navy list, and sold for scrap, some of which was sold to Japan, and was made into cars. So it's possible that there people in the united states driving Japanese cars that were once a part of a heroic navy ship.

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The Hancock being hit by a Kamikaze 25 November 1944. The aircraft dove out of the sun, but gunners on the ship damaged it to the point that 300 feet above the ship the airplane broke apart and part of the fuselage and a wing hit the flight deck, and burst into flames.

BosnMate - Thanks for the add. history on her! I was in 1st Division, E-3 rank
 

Its an all out war down here. These things are taking over. Even the sheriff says get rid of them if you can. Must be uthanized can't be trapped and released. Invasive exotic. Bagged a couple big males with my neighbor. photo-162.webp
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I use them for stone crab bait
 

BosnMate - Thanks for the add. history on her! I was in 1st Division, E-3 rank

I was also an E-3, Assault Boat Coxswain. Took the Marines to the beach in a LCM. (Landing Craft Mechanized)
 

Three years sea duty aboard this ship. USS Merrick AKA97.

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It was an attack cargo ship, our main battery was the landing craft she carried, boats used to take the marines and their cargo and deliver them through the surf and land them on the beach.

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Marines climbing down a cargo net to board a LCM, called a "Mike" boat. Landing Craft Mechinized, fifty six feet long, 55 tons, twin grey marine diesel engines and twin screws, carried 120 combat loaded troops.
 

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Which one are you?
 

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