Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo radio said last week that the Shangri-La from which Major General James H. Doolittle came to raid Tokyo last April 18 was the late aircraft carrier Hornet. "Our Imperial air units," said the broadcast, "have been concentrating on this ship"; and its sinking was "revenge for the raid [which] can never be forgotten by the 100,000,000 Japanese people...
When the Navy announced the sinking of the Hornet last week no mention was made of what she did to the enemy in her death throes. The story, as seen...
...Navy named last week one carrier, three cruisers and six destroyers which it had previously admitted lost between Oct. 26 and Dec. 1 but had not named. The carrier was the Hornet. The cruisers were the Atlanta, Juneau, Northampton. The destroyers were the Cushing, Preston, Benham, Walke, Monssen, Laffey, Barton. Most interesting news was the inclusion of the Atlanta and Juneau-fast, light anti-aircraft vessels bristling with 16-five-inch guns. Their loss was presumably due to their meeting surface vessels, against which they had not been primarily designed to fight...
WASHINGTON--The U. S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet went down swinging, her planes scoring hits on 12 Jap warships and three auxillaries, sinking four transports and destroying at least 60 Jap planes in five fierce months of fighting before she perished Oct. 26, an official Navy obituary of the gallant craft revealed tonight...
...destroyer Porter was lost, other ships damaged. But the real blow came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...