The story of USS Hornet

 

“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”

 

Yeah, so this is the third aircraft carrier story being honest I like aircraft carriers with their planes taking off with those bombs and torpedoes (I actually built an aircraft carrier with Lego).

(This will be a thing with every naval ship story) the description will be below.

 

 

                                 USS Hornet

          Armament: 8 × single 5 in (127 mm) DP guns

            Armor: Belt armor: 2.5–4 in (64–102 mm)

  Deck armor: 4 in (102 mm)

  Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm)

  Conning Tower: 4 in (102 mm)

            Speed: 32.5 knots  

            Displacement: 20,000 tons 

 

So, USS Hornet was at the coast of Virginia engaged in training exercises when the Pearl Harbor

attack happened so with that Hornet was not affected and was safe for now, but when the time came the USS Hornet had meet up with USS Enterprise and made a course to Japan.

The original plan was to get within 400 nmi (460 mi; 740 km) of the Japanese coast but they changed it to 600 nmi (690 mi; 1,100 km) but launching that far made it as to where none of the bombers Hornet launched didn’t make it to their designated airstrips in mainland (unoccupied) China, but the moment all 16 

bombers had launched the Hornet and USS Enterprise are going full steam ahead to Pearl Harbor and after that they would then steam out of Pearl heading for point luck to ambush the Japanese mobile strike force but in the end Hornet would get torpedoed by Japanese destroyers and was the last US aircraft carrier to be sunk by enemy fire (and by fire I mean like torpedoes and shells).

 

 

Italic/bold contents are credited to Wikipedia.