Retirement
Following his removal from command on Guam, Hansell at his own request received a B-29 training assignment on 15 February 1945, command of the 38th Flying Training Wing at Williams Field, Arizona. In June 1945, he was transferred to Air Transport Command under his old mentor Lieutenant General Harold George, commanding the Caribbean Wing at West Palm Beach, Florida, from 30 September 1945 to 14 January 1946, and the North Atlantic Wing at Westover Field, Massachusetts, from 1 July 1946 to 18 August 1946.
Hansell took early retirement due to a loss-of-hearing disability, retiring with the rank of brigadier general on 31 December 1946. He held positions as vice president of Peruvian International Airlines until Peru nationalized the airline in 1949, and vice president of South Atlantic Gas Company from 1949 until his recall to the military.
He was recalled to active duty on 15 July 1951, by Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg and assigned as Chief, Military Assistance Program Headquarters, USAF, acting as a senior program manager and advisor to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. On 5 September 1952, he was promoted to major general. In April 1953, Hansell was appointed the senior Air Force representative to the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group in the Research and Development Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C. He retired a second time from the USAF in 1955.
Hansell worked for General Electric, becoming head of its subsidiary in the Netherlands until 1967, when he retired to Hilton Head, South Carolina. He died on 14 November 1988, in Hilton Head, of heart failure and pulmonary edema, as he was preparing to leave for a lecture in Canada. He was interred with full military honors at the United States Air Force Academy Cemetery.
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