Hancock (CVA 19) - Naval Cruise Book

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APOL GGIA This is a personal bookg a recollection of one journey to the Western Pacific prepared, for those who were a part of that journey. It is also a public historyg a portrait of our Navy's oldest attack arrcraft carrrer rn her f1rst twenty f1ve years Hopefully lt w1ll become a well of future memorres to both he who lrved the Journey and those for whom he w1shes 1ts experrence to be recalled The Edrtor assumes smgular responsrbhty for layout and desrgn of th1s book He explarns to those who would note 1ts drfferences from others of the same genre that he has sunply told the story as he observed rt and thought It should be told Where gaps occur as rn photo coverage of Com munrcatxons Department and Combat Informatron Center operatrons explanatrons based on erther reasons of securrty or ed1tor1al d1scret1on are offered Most of the camera work rn Chapters Two Three and Four was done by the Edrtor Inclrvrdual credrts elsewhere 1n these chapters are glven where due Thanks are rn order to the HANCOCK Photo Lab for reproducrng from the1r trles the h1stor1cal photos used rn Chapter One for processmg hlm and dorng the black and whlte prrntrng 1n the fxrst four chapters and for prcture coverage of the CINCPAC Change of Command and vrsxt by South Korean Naval and Government Offrcrals To the NAS ALAMEDA Photo Lab goes gratrtude for Departure Day photographs Thanks also to combat artrst Hal MCCOIm1Ck who cre ated four or1g1nal art works for th1s volume Cthey appear as d1v1s1on pages for all but Chapter Fourj Terry Henry of Walsworth Publxshrng Company for hrs valuable cr1t1c1sm and advrce and Freddy Szydhk of th1s command for hrs ac curate recopy ass1stance Whatever the effect on the reader It 1S hoped that th1s effort 1S thought by those who know to be at least tech nrcally competent TABLE of CNTENTS CHAPTER CNE The Pasf,19,44'-68 . Pages 1213 CHAPTER TWO Life At Sea, 1968-69 . Pages 44 45 CHAPTER THREE, Visits And Events Of Note, 1968 69 ................. Pages 94 95 CHAPTER FOUR Lands Wsjfed, 1968-69 . Pages 116117 CHAPTER FIVE Personnel, 1968-69 . Pages 136137

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fffk in .-,-,.,..,- H Q 'h Styttgff., ' 4,2 f-.QE f 5 if if Ln 1 if t- , ...,Q A , , 1 Commanding Officer Captain Howard E. Greer, a native of Tyler, Texas and Twenty-First, Commanding Officer of HANCOCK, is a 1943 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He served in the USS PRINCETON, participating in all naval campaigns from Tarawa to the first attack on the Philippines, prior to entering flight training and being designated a Naval Aviator in November, 1945. In 1946-47 Captain Greer served aboard USS LEYTE, and in 1951-52 was embarked in USS CORAL SEA. He has served with Fighter Squadrons SEVENTY-ONE, SIXTY-TWO, ONE HUNDRED ONE, and Attack Squadron TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN, and in 1957-58 commanded Fighter Squadron SIXTY FOUR aboard USS MIDWAY. In 1961-62 he was Com- mander Attack Air Group TEN embarked on USS SHANGRI-LA. Captain Greer has served as aide to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations CAirJ, and on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operationsg Commander Fleet Air Iacksonvilleg Com- mander SIXTH Fleetg Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic, Commander Carrier Division SEVEN, and Commander SEVENTH Fleet. The holder of a Master's Degree in Business Administration from George Washington University, Captain Greer was Commanding Officer of the USS PONCHATOULA CAO-1485. He is a 1954 graduate of the Naval War College Command and Staff School and a 1961 grad- uate ofthe Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Captain and Mrs. Greer, the former Suzanne Iohnson, have six children.