Shipmates, this is the Earl P. Ayres Hancock Photo Gallery...
and is dedicated to his honor. We thank him so very much for assembling this fine Photo Gallery of the USS Hancock during WWII.
If you wish to copy these pictures to your computer, they can easily be saved by placing your mouse point on the picture, and then clicking your 'Right' mouse button on the picture. You will see a Menu pop up, with several options. Choose the 'Save Picture As' feature, and save the file to your hard disk in a folder you keep for pictures, such as 'My Pictures' - a subfolder under 'My Documents'.
To get the info on each picture, click the Anchor & Chain or on INFO below each picture thumbnail. If you know that more should be told about the picture or if it was reported in error, please contain your Yeoman. Thanks!
The following is Info on each photo in the Extended WWII Earl P. Ayres Gallery...
Picture #1:
Fighter on the Flight Deck, ready for launch
Picture #2:
USS Franklin, badly damaged after Japanese attack.
Picture #3:
Saving the Franklin
Picture #4:
USS Hancock October 25, 1944
Picture #5:
Franklin after fires are put out
Picture #6:
Removing dead and wounded - January 21, 1945 when an explosion of 500 # bomb in a returning TBM dropped to the flight deck and exploded, killing all on the flight deck near the plane, including the plane's crew.
Picture #7:
Getting Planes ready for strike
Picture #8:
Shot taken from a Destroyer - April 7, 1945. Hannah is on fire.
Picture #10:
Funeral for 7 Officers and 43 Enlisted men due to bomb explosion, January 23, 1945.
Picture #11:
Burial at Sea, October 4, 1945.
Picture #12:
Hancock in Battle Dress
Picture #13:
Deck Elevator
Picture #14
Strike Day
Picture #15:
Strike Day
Picture #16:
Bogie down: splash one "Judy"
Picture #17:
Halsey Powell Hit taken from USS Essex
Picture #18:
Murder's Row at Ulithi
Picture #19:
Another good kill
Picture #20:
April 7, 1945 - Hanger Deck Forward
Picture #21:
Bombs to be loaded on the planes
Picture #22:
Halsey Powell, takes a bomb and engine from a Kamikaze, shot 500 feet overhead.. causing an emergency breakaway and a near collision... passing by inches from the Hancock's bow... a very tense moment in our ship's history.
Picture #23:
Landing planes on Strike Day
Picture #25:
Burial at Sea
Picture #26:
Belly Tank Fire
Picture #27:
October '44
Picture #28:
Near miss
Picture #29, 30:
April 7, 1945
Picture #31:
March 1945
Picture #32
Barrier Crash
Picture #33:
Too High, Too Fast!!! This pilot was lucky!
Picture #34:
Arming Bomb
Picture #35:
March 1945
Picture #36:
After a Strike
Picture #37:
Forward 22mm Guns
Picture #38
End of Kamikaze