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	USS Hornet (CV-12) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The seventh Hornet (CV-8) was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz on 26 October 1942, and the CV-12 hull was renamed Hornet (the name Kearsarge is still stamped into her keel plate).
		Hornet, basing from Eniwetok in the Marshalls, raided enemy installations ranging from Guam to the Bonins, then turned her attention to the Palaus, throughout the Philippine Sea, and to enemy bases on Okinawa and Formosa.
		In 1991, Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark, and on 17 October 1998, she was recommissioned and opened to the public as an aircraft carrier museum in Alameda, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12) (1528 words)

	CV-8 Hornet
		Hornet steamed from Pearl 30 April, to aid USS Yorktown (CV 5) and USS Lexington (CV 2) at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
		Hornet planes attacked the fleeing Japanese fleet 6 June 1942 to assist in sinking cruiser Mikuma, damaged a destroyer, and left cruiser Mogami aflame and heavily damaged.
		Hornet's attack on Mogami wrote the finish to one of the decisive battles of history that had far reaching and enduring results on the Pacific War.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cv-8.htm (1157 words)

	USS Hornet--World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		The Navy announced the impending retirement of the USS Hornet on January 15, 1970, and the carrier was decommissioned on June 30.
		The USS Hornet and its air groups were credited with shooting down 688 planes, destroying another 742 aircraft on the ground, sinking a carrier, cruiser, 42 cargo ships and 10 destroyers and assisting in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato.
		The USS Hornet was reactivated for the Korean War and its last combat deployment was as an antisubmarine warfare carrier in the Vietnam War.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wwiibayarea/hor.HTM (761 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - USS Hornet
		The veteran Essex-class carrier USS Hornet (CV-12, CVA-12, CVS-12) is the eighth and most distinguished namesake in a long line of U.S. Navy warships with proud naval histories, beginning with the first Hornet in 1775.
		The eighth Hornet (CV-12) had an extraordinary combat record in WW II, engaging the enemy in the Pacific in March 1944, just 21 months after the laying of her keel and the shortest shakedown cruise in Navy history (2 weeks).
		USS Hornet is a National Historic Landmark and a State Historical Landmark.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/hornet.htm (425 words)

	USS Hornet
		At that time on Slipway Number 8 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, the same slipway that USS Hornet, CV-8 had been built less than two years before and from which USS Essex, CV-9 had just been launched, the keel and frame of hull number 395, USS Kearsarge, was quickly being constructed.
		USS Hornet would participate in every major action in the Pacific for the remainder of the war and do so without ever being hit.
		On the forecastle, the anchor windlass and capstans.
	us.obriens.net /uss_hornet.htm (252 words)

	California - USS Hornet CV-12
		The USS Hornet Museum is located at the Alameda Naval Air Station, in Alameda, California.
		This was the eighth HORNET to serve in the U.S. Navy and was commisioned in 1943.
	www.davidpride.com /USA/California/CA_3.htm (59 words)

	USS Hornet Bridge
		Behind the captain's chair, and separated by a bulkhead with a series of portholes, is the pilothouse, from which Hornet is "driven." The helm occupies the center of the pilothouse.
		The bridge of the Hornet, with the captain's chair on its pedestal overlooking the flight deck.
		However, Hornet was equipped to perform the functions of a flagship.
	www.webcom.com /amraam/cv12-bridge.htm (243 words)

	USS Hornet
		USS Hornet (CV-12/CVA-12/CVS-12), Essex-class fleet aircraft carrier, eighth United States ship to bear the name.
		Hornet's decks are numbered beginning with the hangar deck (first deck), with numbers increasing as one proceeds below toward the waterline.
		Hornet's two bow catapults, the landing area, and a gorgeous view of the San Francisco Bay can be found here.
	www.rjlee.org /cv12-home.htm (610 words)

	Haunted Bay - USS Hornet
		The eighth USS Hornet, the one currently docked in Alameda, was commissioned in 1943 at the height of the war in the Pacific.
		The USS Hornet has the dubious honor for having the highest suicide rate in the Navy.
		Golemac describes the spirits of the Hornet as cohesive and positive, and they are making themselves known because they want the restoration work to continue and they want their stories to be told.
	www.hauntedbay.com /features/usshornet.shtml (1276 words)

	THE USS HORNET MUSEUM’S ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
		USS Hornet, CV-12, which was built at Newport News Shipbuilding, was commissioned in 1943.
		The USS Hornet Museum’s Oral History Project (the Project) has been in existence for over two years, and in that time has faced a number of challenges, such as lack of funding and staffing.
		By showing the human side of Hornet and her missions, the public would be able to relate to her in a more personal way.
	www.battleshipnc.com /6mhc/jsmith.htm (2394 words)

	The Fast Carriers
		Island of the USS Hancock (CV-19) looms in background as crewmen move rockets to planes, while preparing for strikes on Formosa, 12 October 1944.
		USS Randolph (CV-15) alongside a repair ship at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945, showing damage to her after flight deck resulting from a "Kamikaze" hit on 11 March.
		USS Wasp (CV-18) at sea in the western Pacific, 6 August 1945.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/ww2timeline/pacific06c.html (889 words)

	USS Hornet (CV-8) - Wikipedia
		Die USS Hornet (CV-8) war ein Flugzeugträger der US-Navy.
		Februar 1942 verließ die Hornet den Hafen in Norfolk mit zwei B25-Bombern an Bord.
		Zwei Monate später machte sich die Hornet mit 16 B-25-Bombern und 134 Mann Bomberbesatzungen auf den Weg nach Japan, um einen Bombenangriff auf Japan durchzuführen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-8) (256 words)

	US Fleet Carriers in World War II
		USS Intrepid (CV-11) afire, after she was hit by a "Kamikaze" off Okinawa on 16 April 1945.
		USS Enterprise (CV-6) entering Pearl Harbor on 26 May 1942.
		Yorktown and Hornet were transferred to the Pacific in December 1941 and March 1942.
	www.ehistory.com /wwii/USNCV.cfm (506 words)

	USS Hornet Ready Rooms
		This particular ready room has been restored by the USS Hornet Museum to house exhibits commemorating fighter/attack aviation units, although Hornet in her later years carried only antisubmarine aircraft.
		This is one of Hornet's large "ready rooms" on the second deck, which were used by the various embarked aviation squadrons for mission briefings and as general squadron assembly areas.
		The ready room door bears the squadron insignia of VS-35 "Boomerangers", an S2F antisubmarine squadron that deployed in Hornet in the 1960s.
	www.webcom.com /~amraam/cv12-readyrm.htm (168 words)

	USS Kitty Hawk
		The USS Kitty Hawk holds about 85 airplanes, more than 6000 military personnel, it carriers as much as 1.2 million pounds of conventional weapons, it has trucks, fairly large boats for the captain and the admiral, it can travel more than 32 knots and is one of most feared military machines in the world.
		The USS Kitty Hawk's length is 1062.5 feet (323.8 meters), its Flight Deck Width is 252 feet (76.8 meters) Width at sea level is 130 feet (39 meters).
		The complete marriage of the air wing and the ship eliminated some of the difficulties that squadrons occasionally experienced on carriers when they did not have shops, spaces and living quarters that were always "theirs." Glad that you took such great pictures during your cruise, and that you are so generous in showing them.
	www.yellowairplane.com /USS_Kitty_Hawk.htm (615 words)

	USS HORNET CV-12 CVA-12 CVS-12 by Dwayne Miles
		These are the two patches that my father (Ray Miles) had while serving on board the U.S.S. HORNET CVA-12 from 1954 to October 1957.
		The USS HORNET Museum is looking for any photos taken during the trip from Long Beach to Bremerton for the decommissioning in 1970, and even some in Bremerton.
		You can order a 1/24 scale die cast model of this truck or you can purchase an F-18 Hornet with your name on it that will be displayed on the truck during the race from http://store.yahoo.com/shaneriffelracing-store/noname.html All procedes will go to the USS Hornet Museum.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /%7Edrmiles/hornet.html (1978 words)

	USS HORNET : Welcome
		- USS HORNET (CV-8) officially stricken from Navy record.
		For the BELLEAU WOOD, it was for heroism in the Pacific area from September 18, 1943, to August 15, 1945; for the CABOT, from January 29, 1944, to April 8, 1945; for the ESSEX, August 31, 1943 to August 15, 1945; for the HORNET, March 29, 1944, to June 10, 1945.
		HORNET bombers credited with sinking Japanese carrier SHOKAKU and damaging another carrier and cruiser.
	www.uss-hornet.org /history/ships_logcv-12.html (1075 words)

	Restoration of the USS Hornet
		The USS Hornet was retired from duty in June 1970.
		Thanks to the efforts of private citizens and volunteers from the IUOE Local 3 in Oakland, Calif., the USS Hornet will be turned into the first aircraft carrier museum on the West Coast.
		It took 3 1/2 years for the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation to gain ownership of the Hornet which was destined to be dismantled.
	www.industrial-handling.com /articles/uss-hornet.shtml (319 words)

	USS SHANGRI-LA
		USS SHANGRI-LA Here are some photos that follow the progress of the construction of the Museum as it was being built on the USS Hornet (CV-12) in Alameda, CA.
		Here is the USS HORNET tied up at Pier 3 in Alameda N.A.S Alameda California.
		Before I started construction on the museum on the Hornet, I built one of the cabnets in my garage.
	www.uss-shangri-la.com /museum.html (327 words)

	USS HORNET Ghost Stories
		One such locale Was the USS Hornet, and the episode recently aired this past week on Sunday, April 1, 2001.
		Many courageous sailors spent their last fleeting moments of life in the USS Hornet's sick bay.
		On the night of December 12, 1948, an unfortunate sailor slipped on the flight deck and fell into the path of a landing jet.
	www.cva-12.com /ghost_stories.html (2589 words)

	Hornet de USS (Cv-12)
		El octavo hornet de USS (Cv/cva/cvs-12) originalmente fue nombrado USS Kearsarge, pero retitulado en el honor del Cv-8, que fue perdido en octubre de 1942.
		English version: USS Hornet (CV-12) Next: Elefante De la Sabana Up
		El séptimo hornet (Cv-8) fue hundido en la batalla de Santa Cruz el 26 de octubre de 1942, y el casco Cv-12 fue retitulado hornet (el Kearsarge conocido todavía se estampa en su placa de la quilla).
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ho/Hornet%20de%20USS%20%28Cv12%29.htm (563 words)

	A History of Ships Named Enterprise
		Planes from the USS Enterprise, the USS Essex (CV-9), the USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Cabot (CVL-28), and USS Franklin (CV-13) sink the battleship Musashi.
		USS Enterprise might easily have been sunk had it not been for the anti-aircraft gunfire of the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), which shot down a record 26 aircraft that day, a record which still stands.
		USS Enterprise was forced to jettison her armament in order to escape.
	starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca /?SNE (6524 words)

	List Events for USS Hancock - CV 19
		Millbrae - CA Back to San Francisco in 2004: Day-trip to USS HORNET (CV12) Day-trip to Napa Valley Wine Country Dinner-dance cruise on S.F. Bay Day-trip to Fisherman's Wharf and side trips to USS PAMPANITO, SS Jeremian O'Brian and more.
		USS HANCOCK CVA 19: Promises to be biggest and best ever.
		USS HANCOCK CV/CVA 19: All personnel, ship's company and squadrons.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageListEvents/1,13512,200194,00.html (104 words)

	USS HORNET CV-12 Presidential Unit Citation
		Daring and dependable in combat, the HORNET with her gallant officers and men rendered loyal ser- vice in achieving the ultimate defeat of the Japanese Empire"
		U.S.S. and her attached Air Groups participating in the following operations:
		The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~drmiles/cv-12_citation.html (178 words)

	Devine Sr.WWII page
		The Japanese attack on Midway was met by a greatly outnumbered U.S. carrier force composed of Task Force 17 with USS Yorktown (CV 5) and Task Force 16 with USS Hornet (CV 8) and USS Enterprise (CV 6).
		Donated to The Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation for use as a museum on 26 May 1998.
		But fighter aircraft from Hornet and other carriers broke up all the attacks before the Japanese reached the task force.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Shores/4803/Vietnam/Navy (678 words)

	The Double Sting Page
		Consider sending that to the USS COLE survivors or their families, or to Navy Relief, or even to the WASP Association, please.
		Bill is a volunteer on Hornet and coordinator for the
		At this time the memorial compartment is being painted, rigged with a fresh-water fire sprinkler system (City of Alameda code requirement), and re-tiled.
	www.cv18.com /cv12.html (242 words)

	Apollo 11
		The command module and its crew were flawlessly recovered by the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12).
		The splashdown point was 13 deg 19 min N, 169 deg 9 min W, 400 miles SSW of Wake Island and 24 km (15 mi) from the recovery ship USS Hornet.
		The ship is now open to the public as a museum in Alameda, CA.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/apollo_11 (654 words)

	Learn more about List of museum ships in the online encyclopedia.
		USS Hornet (CV-12) - Alameda, California, WWII aircraft carrier
		USS Lexington (CV-16) - Corpus Christi, Texas, aircraft carrier
		USS Albacore - Portsmouth, New Hampshire, experimental submarine
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_museum_ships.html (612 words)

	Hornet
		(not to be confused with USS Hornet CV-8 of Doolittle raid fame) is among the most famous of this illustrious class.
		Under attack 59 times in 18 months of combat operations, Hornet's air groups and AA guns shot down 668 Japanese planes, destroyed another 747 aircraft on the ground, sank 73 ships with 37 probable sinkings, and damaged an additional 413 vessels.
		Restoration is a continuing process but it is well along, and Hornet is open to the public.
	www.steelnavy.com /Hornet.htm (310 words)

	Sweden, British, USA, German and Japanese 4 cm/56 (1.57") Model 1936 Bofors
		The first shipboard quad installation was on the gunnery-training ship (ex-battleship) USS Wyoming (AG-17) on 22 June 1942, and the first twin installation was on the destroyer USS Coghlan (DD-606) on 1 July 1942.
		12) The Buster twin was another World War II attempt at a self-contained mounting, but this weighed far too much for only a twin arrangement at approximately 20 tons (20.3 mt) and the project was cancelled.
		This mounting was power operated with elevation limits of -15 to +90 degrees and weighed 6.4 tons (6.5 mt) with 12 four-round clips carried on mount.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNUS_4cm-56_mk12.htm (4248 words)

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