USS Hornet (CV-8)
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USS Hornet, the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier. Commissioned a month before the Pearl Harbor attack, the ship spent three months working up in the waters
USS Hornet (CV-8) shortly after completion
Hornet cruising off Hampton Roads in October 1941
A B-25 taking off from Hornet
Lt. Colonel James Doolittle and Captain Marc Mitscher on board USS Hornet in April 1942
Doolittle Raid
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The Doolittle Raid was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital of Tokyo and other places in Honshu during World War II. Launched on April 18, 1942, it was the first American air opera
USS Hornet (CV-8)
…being dispatched to the Pacific in March 1942. In April 1942 the ship, part of a Task Force that also included her sister-ship Enterprise, launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, then sortied in mid-May toward the South Pacific before being abruptly recalled to Hawaii in order to participate in the Battle of Midway in…
Jimmy Doolittle and his B-25 Mitchell taking off from the USS Hornet for the raid
Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle wires a Japanese friendship medal to a bomb, for "return" to its originators.
B-25 Mitchells aboard USS Hornet