Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another unit of the greatest fleet of aircraft carriers in the world last week got her commission from the Navy. She was the 20,000-ton Hornet (cost: $31,000,000), whose broad decks can accommodate 80 planes. The addition of the Hornet brought the number of active U.S. carriers up to seven, ranging in tonnage from the 14,500-ton Ranger to the 33,000-ton Lexington and Saratoga, which were started as battle cruisers before their conversion in 1927. Although numerically the British and Japanese are credited with superiority over the U.S. in carriers-England has eight, Japan...
Carriers are much on Jack Towers' mind nowadays. The Fleets now have six in service, plus a seventh (the Hornet) almost ready for duty, and eleven more on order. By the Navy's accepted standards, six were perhaps enough for the old Fleet organizations. Now the Navy has ceased to think in terms of concentrated battle lines, plans instead for dispersed "task forces"-units of battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers on special missions. This conception requires more carriers than the Navy has in service and in sight. A carrier shortage is therefore one of the biggest holes...
...sleeps a great deal at home and naps constantly and at will on the lot. Stripped of his Hollywood appurtenances and fan-magazine mysticism, this national phenomenon is what he has been for years-an extremely good-natured Montana sportsman. He is daft about guns (his favorite: a .22 Hornet with a German telescope sight). His mind is encyclopedic as to velocities, trajectories. He and "Rocky"-Mrs. Cooper-hunt coyotes and bobcats together in the mountains near Malibu. In 1939 she won the California Women's Skeet Shooting Championship...
...Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied up at the fitting-out dock. Typical of the leisurely pace of U. S. defense was the fact that she was launched only six days ahead of the promised date. A little more encouraging was the announcement that she would be all ready in November 1941, three months ahead...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...