Collection Guide:
The following subjects can be seen:
Ship’s launching, commissioning and shakedown operations
Transit to the Pacific via the Panama Canal
Strikes on Okinawa and Formosa, October 1944 and November 1944, with near miss by Kamikaze.
Strikes off South Vietnam, 12 January 1945 with sinking of Japanese TCL Kashii
Strike on Hong Kong, 20 January 1945 and damage to Hancock from plane explosion
Strikes on Iwo Jima, February 1945, with photos of beaches Japanese LSTs
Strikes on Nansei Shoto Islands, 1 March 1945
Bombing of USS Franklin (CV-13), 19 March 1945
Bombing of USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) while alongside Hancock, 20 March
Firey crash landing of an F4U onboard Hancock (series of photos)
Strikes on Okinawa and Kamikaze hit on Hancock, 7 April, 1945
Strike on Wake Island, 20 June 1945
Strikes on Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, 15 July and on Yokosuka Naval Base, 18 July
Hancock’s planes fly over USS Missouri during surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945
Dropping supplies on Allied prisoner of war camps in Japan.
The following planes can be seen:
SB2C, TBM, F4F, and F4U types
