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United States NAVY ATG-2 CV-19 USS HANCOCK Essex Class Aircraft Carriers Military Patch WEST PAC APRIL 1957 SEPT 1957 Hancock recommissioned on 15 November 1956 for training out of San Diego until 6 April 1957, when she again sailed for Hawaii and the Far East. She returned to San Francisco on 18 September 1957 and again departed for Japan on 15 February 1958. She was a unit of powerful carrier task groups taking station off Taiwan when the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu were threatened with Communist invasion in August 1959.
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