USS Hanson (DD-832) Gearing Class Destroyer
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| A general purpose destroyer of the Gearing Class honoring First Lieutenant Robert M. Hanson, USMC aviator who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for gallantry in action during World War II. Built by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, and commissioned on 11 May 1945. Modernized under the Navy's FRAM MK I program by adding a helicopter deck and anti-submarine rocket (ASROC). |
