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Patch at left Si Dougherty, patch at right Bill & Beve Doran
USS Tidewater (AD-31)
CAPT. Burton S. Hanson Jr., USN
Captain Burton S. Hanson Jr., Commanding Officer of the USS
TIDEWATER (AD-31) graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in the Class
of 1930. His first tour of duty after graduation was in the Cruiser
CHESTER, followed by tours in four destroyers and the battleship
COLORADO. During World War II he served on the staff of Battleship
Division TWO, Fleet Admiral Halsey’s South Pacific Theater
Staff, and the staff of Commander THIRD Amphibious Force in the
Pacific Area. During this time he participated in the South Pacific
and Philippines assaults.
Following World War II he received orders
to the Strategic Plans section of the Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations in Washington, D. C. This duty was followed by an
assignment to the staff of Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces
Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean in London, England.
At the out-break of hostilities in Korea he was ordered to command and
recommission USS CAPRICORNUS (AKA-57). Prior his present duty as
Commanding Officer of the TIDEWATER, Captain Hanson was the Director
of the Plans and Policy Control Division of the Bureau of Naval
Personnel in Washington, D. C.
Captain Hanson is married to the former Margaret Fair Gillen of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have one child, Elisabeth Fall Hanson, who
is presently a Lieutenant Junior grade in the WAVES
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