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Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 9:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hahne
My dad served in the Navy with Tim Hahne (WWII) They were best friends. After my dad died in 1954 we lost track of Uncle Tim and Aunt Helen (no they aren't related, just close friends of my parents). At the time of my father's death aboard the U.S.S. Bennington in 1954, Tim Hahne was stationed at the Navy Base in Key West, Florida. The last I heard he was a commander of a vessel down there, but I was young and could be wrong about that. I have hope that Uncle Tim or Aunt Helen are still with us, but I just don't know. I tried the VA and the Dept of the Navy, but was told that the records I was searching for were destroyed in that fire in the 70's, I believe. They had three children last I knew .. two boys and one girl .. the only one I remember was Timmy, the oldest. I know this is a long shot ... a veryyyy looong shot, but I would so love to get in contact with them or their children. Sooooo, if anyone knows/can suggest what else I can do to find them, I'm all ears !!!
Thanks,
Kathy (Thornton) Hughes

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 1 May 2015 5:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
It sounds as if you may have gotten the brush off from the office deadbeat perhaps, because the Navy records were almost totally unaffected in that fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Cent...

This message post should clue you in to what Naval records can be applied for, and given the time frame involved and the information that you have, you may not be able to apply for his records, but the links in this message thread will explain all of that to you in elaborate and long winded detail.
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.Military.wwii.waves/132.1....

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 1 May 2015 5:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hahne
Thanks for this info. I will try again. I know it's a long shot, as we are not related, and Tim Hahne and his wife are possibly no longer with us, but I have to try
thanks again.

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 2:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Are you certain that his name was Tim? I did find a Charles E. Hahne who had a wife whose name was Helen Skow Hahne and he was stationed with the Navy at Key West, FL in 1954. Their children are Timothy , Kathy and Tommy.

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 8:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
I think you are right and both he and Helen have passed in ccalifornia. I would suggest reposting this on the Orange county, California board which is where they last lived.

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 10:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hahne
You know, I'm not really certain about his name. All I ever knew him as was "Uncle Tim". Where did you find them? I would love to follow up on this. I only remember the name of the oldest boy, Timmy ...the other two were younger ...all I remember is a girl and a boy. I was only about 11 years old the last time I saw them ... long time ago... have been trying to locate them over the years, but of course, as Tim or Timothy ... I never considered it wasn't his given name.

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 10:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 May 2015 11:40PM GMT
Surnames: Hahne
That's a very good catch by otter5 and I suspect that information is very likely to relate to your target people, and is more than a coincidence, for two reasons, several different but related pieces of otter5's information match or are very similar to your original information, and also because there are no WW2 USN muster records for Tim or Timothy Hahne, but there is one, and only one, series of muster records for the name of Charles Eugene Hahne.

As regards applying for his service record if you still need to do that, the muster list is very useful because it gives his ranks, enlistment and reenlistment dates, and his service numbers, and he had two numbers.

You said that he and your father served together in WW2, perhaps the names of Charles E. Hahn's WW2 ships may ring a bell with you.

Battleship USS New York BB-34 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_%28BB-34%29

Stores Ship USS Yukon AF-9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yukon_%28AF-9%29

Cruiser USS Savannah CL-42 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Savannah_%28CL-42%29

Carrier USS Bunker Hill CV-19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bunker_Hill_%28CV-17%29

Minesweeper USS Penetrate AM-271
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Penetrate_%28AM-271%29

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Charles Eugene Hahne service number 268 23 80 enlisted 18th August 1936

In 1939 he was on board the New York he is a Seaman 1st Class, probably his first or second ship, he arrived on board 7th April 1937

In 1940 he transferred to the Yukon he is a Quarter Master 3rd Class

Whilst on board the Yukon his period of enlistment must have expired because on 13th September 1940 he reenlisted at Portsmouth Virginia for a further enlistment period of 4 years and he continued to serve on board the Yukon.

In his September 1940 Yukon muster list entry they wrongly listed the first three digits of his service number as 269 instead of 268.

He served on the Yukon until 1942 by which time he was a Quarter Master 2nd Class

In 1942 he transferred to the Savannah as a Quarter Master 1st Class

In 1943 he transferred to the Bunker Hill as a Chief Quarter Master Anti Aircraft

In 1940 he transferred to the Penetrate as a Bosun he has the same 13th September 1940 enlistment date, but he has a new service number 326728 possibly that was his number as an Officer because the muster list has an additional entry for him which says that as an Officer he was transferred for treatment on November 12th 1944 to NOB, Argentia, NFLD.

Perhaps in his case Officer Means Warrant Officer and not a commissioned Officer.

In May 1945 he was still serving on the Penetrate and was a Chief Bosun (T) service number 326728

Also on that muster list is another entry for him which says that he was detached from the US Navy 3297 Order of 28th April 1945 Comdt. 13th N.D. pend. ass. by BuPers. Auth CO Navy

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 11:09PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hahne
Wow, this is interesting and amazed that you were able to find these things. My dad wasn't aboard any of these ships !! He served on the U.S.S. Oklahoma and was transfered from there in 1940. Off the top of my head, I can't remember where he was transfered to, but his next vessel was the U.S.S. Tulagi ... He and "Uncle Tim" were in Japan together after the war ... perhaps that's where they developed their friendship. I have many pictures of them together there, as well as some that I don't recognize the place. I do know that my dad was in some sort of flight school at one point. His last ship was the U.S.S. Bennington ..where he died in the explosion in 1954.

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 11:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
Your dad will be listed on the WW2 muster lists of the vessels on which he served.

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1143

Re: Looking for Timothy Hahne or his children

Posted: 2 May 2015 11:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hahne
I do have those, as well as my dad's military records. So many to go through and my memory isn't what it used to be. He was on the Oklahoma until Dec 1940 and then went to the U.S.S. Craven until Mar. of 1941 .. he was on the Platte in Mar 1941 going from Pearl to San Diego. I am beginning to think that he and Uncle Tim must have met going to Japan after the war as I don't see a Hahne listed on any of the vessels my dad was on, but I haven't gone through all of the lists yet. My dad was a Chief Warrant Officer when he died.
One thing that I vaguely remember either my mother or my brother telling me was that Uncle Tim was given command of a vessel in Key West and that the vessel ran aground ... and Uncle Tim was held responsible ... of course this was after 1954 ...
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