USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the...
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Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942. USS Hornet (CV-12) was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World...
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Essex-class aircraft carrier (redirect from USS Reprisal (CV-35))
original USS Hornet (CV-8) was lost in October 1942 in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. The erstwhile Valley Forge was renamed Princeton after USS Princeton (CVL-23)...
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designated VF-8. The first VF-8 had been established in September 1941 and was disestablished on 28 August 1942, serving aboard USS Hornet (CV-8). VF-8 under...
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Henrico (APA-45) USS Hinsdale (APA-120) USS Hobson (DD-464) USS Hodges (DE-231) USS Hopkins (DD-249) USS Hornet (CV-8) 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz in the first...
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USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the ship...
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he distinguished himself as commanding officer of aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), which was sunk during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in late...
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L-8 delivered vital B-25 modification parts to the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) after she departed California carrying the Doolittle Raiders, ahead...
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and their respective aircraft departed from San Francisco aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8). The mission took place on April 18. The B-25 which Farrow piloted...
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Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet Museum". www.uss-hornet.org. Archived from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015. "USS Hornet CV-8". www.its.caltech...
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transferred to USS Hornet (CV-8) in the summer of 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5)-Installed between July and August 1940 with initial delivery of CXAM USS...
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embarkation aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. On April 18, Doolittle and his 16 B-25 crews took off from Hornet, reached Japan, and bombed their targets...
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Islands. In the latter battle, he attacked the US carriers, USS Hornet (CV-8) and USS Enterprise (CV-6), in which the former was later sunk, while Enterprise...
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World War II on some ships such as USS Yorktown (CV-10). Schreier, Konrad F. (1994). "The Chicago Piano". Naval History. 8 (4). United States Naval Institute:...
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the USS Hornet (CV-8) in 1942 during the Second World War. During the Vietnam War, his father flew F-4 Phantoms off the USS Ticonderoga and USS Hornet (CV-12)...
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become the commanding officer of the new attack carrier USS Hornet (CV-12), namesake of USS Hornet (CV-8), which had been lost in October 1942 at the Battle...
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USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built during World War II for the United States Navy. Originally intended to...
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USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name...
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USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned 8 days after the end of...
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carrier-based Navy Torpedo Plane of Torpedo Squadron EIGHT (VT-8), attached to the U.S.S. HORNET (CV-8), during the "Air Battle of Midway," against enemy Japanese...
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The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and...
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completed shortly before World War II, the Yorktown (CV-5), Enterprise (CV-6), and Hornet (CV-8). They immediately followed Ranger, the first U.S. aircraft...
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were occupied, Clark was assigned to command the new aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12). But Mitscher soon became disappointed with the performance of Rear...
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Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) in 1941 and then passed on for use as trainers aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). None of the SBNs saw combat...
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Plane and Commanding Officer of Torpedo Squadron EIGHT (VT-8), attached to the USS Hornet (CV-8), during the "Air Battle of Midway," against enemy Japanese...
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Oscar H. Dodson (section USS Thomas Jefferson)
he was on the USS Hornet (CV-8) when the Doolittle Raid was launched. He wrote an eyewitness account which was published in “The Hornets and Their Heroic...
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USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship, Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to...
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USS Kearsarge (CV/CVA/CVS-33) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The...
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USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named...
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