Dr. William G. Hook served aboard the Calvert from 1943 to 1946 as the Assistant Medical Officer. According to his grandson, Eric Hook (USAF), Dr. Hook answered the call after the war broke out, left his private practice in Danvers, MA and entered the US Navy as a LT in 1942. He reported aboard the Calvert sometime in early-to-mid 1943.
Eric Hook has provided a number of other photographs of the Calvert’s officers and crew from his grandfather’s collection, available on the WWII Group Photos page. Additional photographs of the Calvert’s medical staff are also available here.
Dr. Hook can also be seen in the 1944 film footage at the 04:47 – 04:55 mark and at the 16:50 – 22:30 mark.
Here is a photograph of Dr. Hook with the Japanese and Korean prisoners brought aboard the Calvert following the invasions at Saipan and Tinian.
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Dr Hook was my doctor in Danvers, Mass back in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. There are some comments about him on the Facebook pages about growing up in Danvers. I knew his son Bill and daughter Barbra. They moved to Arizona after I joined the Air Force in 1954.
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Hi Richard, thank you for visiting the site and your comment! I’ll check out the Facebook group. Regards, Chris Funck.