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    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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    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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    twin-engine B-25 bombers from USS Hornet (CV-8) to bomb Tokyo in April 1942, served as Admiral Raymond Spruance's chief of staff aboard USS Enterprise during the...
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  • (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 Kamikaze attack USS Howorth...
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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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    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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    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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  • CV8 (redirect from CV 8)
    CV8 may refer to: USS Hornet (CV-8), an aircraft carrier operated by the United States Navy from 1941 until 1942 when she was sunk at the Battle of the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    scene shows a newsreel related to the sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), suggesting that she had been doomed by the hit of three kamikaze...
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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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    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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    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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    Blue as Shiki Kamiyama Dragalia Lost as Nadine Kantai Collection as USS Hornet (CV-8) Ano Hi no Tabibito, Fureau Mirai as Tamaki Aoi Granblue Fantasy as...
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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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