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Hello Shipmates...
My name is I. D. 'Inny' Cerbini, Fireman 2nd Class, USNR. I enlisted on my 17th birthday and was assigned to the U.S.S. Hancock CV-19. I Served aboard her 1944 to wars end, in A and B Divisions (Engineering Divisions). You may wonder how I got my name 'Inny'. I have gone by that name since a young sailor in the Navy back in 1944. Why? Because most people either |
slaughtered my real name or made fun of it. Most people with different sort of names have experienced the same as I did. I am sure some of you can relate to that and can understand what I mean. So this is why I chose to continue using my nickname, 'Inny' and grew to like it, and it stuck. I hope you like it too.
My Online Life
After 53 years I finally found the Hancock Association.
I Had given up on ever finding her. One of my sons found the Association
and Emailed my daughter who lives with us.This was November,1998 and from
then on I have been on the computer with a passion. She served our
nation with honor until 1976 when she was scrapped.
I found the greatest site for the Hancock on Jakes Yankee Station - Hancock Memorial.
When you are done with your visit here, please make sure you make a Port Call at Jake's 'Yankee Station' - USS Hancock Memorial, and learn more about the great ship which I served in. To go there, click on this Banner...
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Welcome Aboard My Hancock Memorial Page! The Quartermaster reports that you are the
Visitor to be Piped aboard since
shakedown
June 6th,
1999
May you have Fair Winds and Following
Seas!
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"I wish to have
no connection with any ship that does not go fast, for I intend to go in
Harms way"
John Paul Jones, Capt. Continental Navy |
"And do not think of these ships as the Navy. The ships alone are masses of inert matter; they are of themselves powerless. The thing that makes the ships alive, the thing that makes them turn to the right and to the left, and take part in maneuvers, and fire their guns, is the spirit of man. It is the spirit of man that designs and makes and vivifies the ships. The Navy is not composed of ships: the Navy is composed of men. The ships are the tools they use."
From the Forward written by Admiral Fiske in the book,
The U.S. Navy by E. Muller Jr., Rand McNally & Co., New York 1917
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This Site is dedicated to the memory of those who gave their lives to preserve the ideals that we all hold so dear. Freedom is not Free. If we fail to protect and preserve it, we could lose it. Please visit my Memorial to those who gave their all on Hancock in WWII...
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My Favorite Links
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My personal photo Gallery
A copy from the Hanna Log,"War Over!"
This site's Hancock Gallery (Hancock WWII
Photos)
Hancock
History on Jake's 'Yankee Station'
Jake's Hancock Photo Gallery (A must visit)
The
Chain Locker
- great Military Links (return using Back Button)
Patriots
Point Naval Museum and Memorial
Homeport of the USS Yorktown CV-10,
Hanna's Sister ship, now a Maritime Museum - (mirror site)
Don's
Home Page
another Tribute site to the USS Hancock CVA-19 This site
has many pictures of Hannah for your enjoyment. Come meet
Don
Mettler, a former 'snipe' on Hancock, '75
John LeJeune's USS Hancock and VF-211 Homepage
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The USS Hancock CV/CVA-19
and those who were her life blood and
Heartbeat... her Crew!
AOL members, if you are reading this Webpage from America Online, you can send me an Instant Message right now if I am online, that is!
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Keywords:
U.S.S. Hancock CV-19, WWII Veterans,
Essex Class Carriers, Blackshoe Navy
I. D."Inny" Cerbini, Ken Jaccard, Surface
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This Homepage was created by
Ken "Jake" Jaccard , Yeoman of
