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1Topj The faces of those who flew the planes. lAbove rightl A 1,000 pound bomb devastates an enemy merchant vessel. lRightj Hancock ordnance men re-arm aircraft for another mission. fFar Rightj The LSO guides a returning dive bomber aboard.
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The Divine W1Hd,, Brings Death lwo lima fell to the Allies on March 16, 1945, and the Hancock, who had supported the massive assault on the small volcanic island, headed northward again to strike the Japanese home islands. Nowa new threat swarmed out of Japan to oppose the strike force. Kamikaze, or Divine Wind, suicide pilots brought the Hancock and her sister carriers under heavy attack. One by one the huge carriers began taking serious blows. Early in April, attention was centered on Okinawa as Army and Marine units swarmed ashore there. Hancock was once again on hand to support the invasion with her aircraft. On April 7 the task force again came under heavy attack. During the fighting a Japanese suicide pilot skimmed his aircraft through the heavy flak in a low attack that struck the Hancock on the port side and sent the enemy aircraft cartwheeling across the flight deck into parked airplanes. Quick action quelled all fires and emergency repairs had the Hancock back conducting flight operations again inside of 50 minutes. But in that short bit of eternity, 27 men had been killed and 35 were missing. As Hancock headed away from the task force for Ulithi, and eventually to Pearl Harbor for repairs, those killed-in-action were given a burial- at-sea off Okinawa.
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