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...everywhere he was known as a man with a single-minded urge to get things done. At Pearl Harbor in 1941, his patrol squadron was one of the few loaded with bombs and ready to fight back against the Japanese. He was executive officer of the aircraft carrier Hancock when she was blasted by a Japanese kamikaze, won the Silver Star for getting fires under control and repairing the flight deck in time to recover aircraft. As skipper of the carrier Bennington in 1954. he took over damage control when a catapult exploded and killed 103 men (and earned...
GEORGE G. HANCOCK...
...practical difficulties proved considerable. But last week the Navy proudly announced the establishment of man's first practical communications system by way of the moon, linking Washington and Hawaii. To celebrate the occasion, Navy officials displayed a radio photograph sent from Hawaii via the moon, of the carrier Hancock with its crew lined up on the flight deck to spell out "Moon Relay...
...Hancock (Jiminy Peak)--4-20, 3 powder, good upper, good to excellent lower...
During the day, efforts were made to show the Russians as much of Cambridge and Boston as possible, and this included the obligatory visits to the John Hancock Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Commons, Widener Library and the Yard, etc. In addition, smaller groups paid visits to hospitals, a reform school, Newton High School, and a Polaroid-Land factory...