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USS HANSON (DD-832) is a F RAM I. 2250 ton destroyer named in honor of First Lieutenant Robert M. Hanson, United States Marine Corps. Lieutenant Hanson, son of a missionary, was born in Sueniew, India, in 1920. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his attack on six Japanese torpedo bombers over Bouganville in November 1943. He shot down twenty-five enemy aircraft before his plane plunged into the sea near Rabual. New Britain. HANSON was built as a Gearing class destroyer by the Bath Iron Works and commissioned on 1 1 May 1945 at Bath, Maine. She was converted to a Radar Picket Destroyer in August 1945 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts. She was FRAMed in 1964 to add DASH and ASROC to her ASW weapons. While on her Mediterranean cruises, HANSON was station ship to the United Nations General Assem- bly at the Isle of Rhodes and carried the United Nations Mediator, Dr. Ralph Bunche to Beinit Lebanon for the peace negotiations concerning Israel in 1949. She was transferred to the Pacific theater in 1 950. During the Korean War she took part in various operations including the Inchon In- vasion and the evacuation of Hungnam. As a rescue ship HANSON has towed a 25,000 ton tanker to safety and shepherded a lost merchant- man to safe waters in the face of a typhoon. At another time she was called upon to rescue an Air Force plane ' s crew who had crashed on a small isle between North Borneo and Indo-China. USS HANSON DD-832 HANSON has made 7 deployments to Viet Nam. During her 1965 deployment she was one of the first U.S. destroyers to participate in shore bom- bardment of South Viet Nam. During her 1966- 1967 deployment, the ship made headlines when assigned to Operation SEADRAGON with USS MANSFIELD fDD-728) from 25 October 1966 to 2 November 1966. The two ships were taken under fire and returned counter-battery fire on enemy shore batteries while operating in international waters during the assignment. HANSON was also assigned as Naval Gunfire Support Ship in III Corps, South Viet Nam, and as such expended over 9,000 five-inch projectiles in support of friendly troops. HANSON ' S 1972 Western Pacific deployment marked her nineteenth cruise. There is little doubt in the minds of her officers and crew that 1972 proved to be one of HANSON ' s greatest tests; Cruise statistics tell that story. She came through in 1972 to the tune of many Bravo Zulus and when she returned home on 10 November 1972 she had fired nearly 15,000 5 inch projectiles.
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HANSONS CHANGING FACE POST-COMMISSIONING 1945 PRE-FRAM 1964 i
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