“Fighting Hannah”: A War History of U.S.S. Hancock CV19
- Item sets
- World War II Navy Cruise Books
- Title
- “Fighting Hannah”: A War History of U.S.S. Hancock CV19
- Alternative Title
- War History of the U.S.S. Hancock CV19
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not indicated] : [Publisher not indicated], [1945?]
- Date
- 1945
- Description
- "On July 15th, 1946, the U.S.S. Hancock was officially awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for outstanding heroism in action ... Today she is one of many proud ships moored along the thousand-mile shore-line of Puget Sound, a memorial to the men who trod her decks in the hope of providing a just and lasting peace. At dusk as the sun dips behind the snow-capped Olympic Mountains to the westward it sets upon a nation which has yet to know a conqueror's tread. The price of that freedom is so great that if the lowering of colors each evening were a tribute to a single fallen hero of World War II it would take a year to honor the Hannah's own casualties and more than eight centuries would elapse ere homage were paid in full. May we build no earthly monuments to those who lie beneath the far Pacific, or on some foreign shore, save the monument of a lasting peace for posterity--should we falter in our course may those ghostly ships, rising and falling on the eternal tide, serve as a reminder of our obligation to them."
- Subject
- Hancock (Aircraft carrier : 1944-1976)--History
- United States. Navy--Cruise books
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
- World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Ocean
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories
- Format
- 143 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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