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Page 48 text:

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T-Ti by fire from all sides. However, they did succeed in diverting attention from dive bombers overhead and within seconds one had suicided into the Cabot while another had hit the unlucky lntrepid. The Cabot's damage was not so severe for the enemy plane pilot released his bomb before striking. From each of the flaming ships, trapped men escaped. the flames and smoke by jumping over the 'side to be picked up by destroyers that pulled up along- side to aid in fighting the fires and to rescue men from exposed gun tubs. The lntrepid's planes returned from strikes to find their carrier deck aflame and cluttered with burning, wrecked planes. Low on fuel, many landed aboard the Hannah in the gathering dusk while others were forced to make water landings. Destroyers and lig-ht cruisers were hard-put to pick up pilots and carrier personnel when the Independence flight deck broke out in bright flames and more personnel were forced over the side by heat and explosions. By l92O the destroyers were forced to turn on running lights aided by the occasional quick stab of a searchlight to pick up missing personnel. Naval regulations required all hands to wear life jackets topside at all times and each man is provided with a tiny flashlight to signal his presence in such emergencies. Risking destruction themselves the tin cans continued the search through the night. Returning to Ulithi in the Western Carolines, the Hannah found time to sum up the box score for Operation Three. Heavy weather had allowed only two strike days which netted ,a total of eight enemy aircraft and one mer- chant ship destroyed. Typhoon Weather November 8 1944

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During the brief stay in Ulithi Admiral W. F. Halsey paid the Hannah a visit to present medals and awards to her personnel. Top honors for the occasion went to departing Captain Dickey with the presentation of the Silver Star for his services as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Hancock. ln traditional ceremonies on the hangar deck Captain Robert V. Hickey, U.S.N., relieved Captain Dickey as commanding officer of the Hancock. Following the change of command the new Captain made a personnel inspection of his officers and crew. Captain Hickey came to the Hancock after a tour of duty as Director of Aviation Personnel in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. His record in the Navy covers nearly every type of combatant ship from submarine to aircraft carriers. Graduated from the Naval Academy in l92l his first duty was the battleship Wyoming from which he was ordered to the destroyer Pope, Asiatic patrol. The succeeding months were to bring the Hannah ever closer to the shores which its new commanding officer, as a bright young Ensign in l922, had patrolled in a four piper destroyer only eighteen New Jersey Surveys Third Fleet at Ulithvl Anchorage

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