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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 was assigned to the Fast Carrier Task Force (variously designated as Task Force 38 or 58) in the Pacific Ocean , the navy's primary offensive force during the Pacific War .
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 Pacific Theater , she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid.
Enterprise and Hornet underway in May 1942. All three ships of the class saw action during the Battle of Midway (4–7 June 1942), Enterprise and Yorktown aircraft were responsible for sinking all four Japanese carriers engaged in the battle, while Hornet assisted in the sinking of
USS Hornet (1865), the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer. USS Hornet (1898), a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish–American War. USS Hornet (CV-8) launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
USS Intrepid showing her SCB-27C configuration.. The two sub-types of SCB-27 modifications were primarily a result of changes in catapult technology in the early-1950s. SCB-27A vessels used a pair of H 8 slotted-tube hydraulic catapults, while the later SCB-27C vessels were fitted with a pair of C 11 steam catapults, a British innovation (in fact the first four installed, on Hancock and ...
USS Hornet (CV-12) July 1945 USS Franklin (CV-13) 8 January 1946, U.S. Navy Letter FF12-5 This assignment was obviously a purely bureaucratic one as USS Franklin was never put back into service after heavy damage received on 19 March 1945. NAS Norfolk: November 1946 Code changed to "6S" in 1956. CVG-5, Carrier Air Group 5
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English: U.S. Navy industrial incentive film: The Life and Death of the USS Hornet. Showing the career of CV-8. The Navy film ends with the launch of a "new" Hornet CV-12. (Original cropped to remove obtrusive watermark.)