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...will be "the base of operations for planes larger than any which have heretofore been operated from the decks of aircraft carriers." This, said Knox, meant planes bigger than the B-25s which left the Hornet to raid Tokyo. Actually, the Mitchells did not "operate" from the carrier they merely took off. But by the time the CVBs are finished (18 to 24 months from keel laying) there will be newer and bigger planes to make full use of their spreading flight decks...
Patched up at Pearl Harbor, she limped to Mare Island, Calif, for permanent repairs. With new men aboard, she sailed for the South Pacific, trained incessantly at the job her men prized most-gunnery. She made two runs to Guadalcanal, served as escort for the carrier Hornet, then joined the task force which included the Wasp. The Helena was there when the Wasp was torpedoed, took aboard many of the survivors...
Before the three admirals lay the conquest of the world's greatest ocean. For almost two months Pacific Fleet units had been boldly poking into the "hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
...first strong carrier operation since the sinking of the Hornet in the Battle of Santa Cruz, October 1942, the raid was proof of new U.S. strength in the Pacific...
...Insect World. In Cincinnati, George Frank, a gypsy, was charged with trying to evade the draft by buying a wife and three children for $500. In Ithaca, N.Y., a local draft board sympathetically postponed the induction of a young man who had swallowed a hornet...