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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.
Visitors to an old historic house captured pictures of an apparition believed to be the Eldred children who had died in the house; A couple who recently lost their daughter Nicole felt her presence in their house; Paranormal investigators captured EVPs and a full-bodied apparition aboard a haunted U.S. Navy ship, USS Hornet; a woman and her ...
Bob Cole, 100, stands near a model of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), on which Cole served, on the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, while visiting the Veterans Memorial Museum ...
"The Gray Ghost" – USS Enterprise "The Gray Lady" – USS Lexington "The Gray Ghost" – USS Iowa "The Great White Ghost of the Arabian Coast/The Great White Whale" – USS La Salle (AGF-3) "Grey Ghost" – USS Pensacola; nickname given by Tokyo Rose "Greenpig" – USS Greenling "GW" – USS George Washington; initials of the ship's namesake
L-8, later renamed America and popularly known as the "Ghost Blimp", was a United States Navy L-class airship whose two crewmen disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on August 16, 1942. At 11:15 a.m., several hours after the airship lifted off from Treasure Island , San Francisco , California , L-8 reappeared off the shore of Ocean Beach near Fort ...
The imperial Japanese Navy raised the ship and renamed it Patrol Boat No. 102. Soon, distant sightings of The Stewart led to rumors about an American “ghost ship” operating deep behind enemy ...
USS Hornet (1805 brig), a brig-rigged sloop-of-war, was launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829. USS Hornet (1813) was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820. USS Hornet (1865), the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer. USS Hornet (1898), a converted yacht, was a ...