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Shangri-La. One afternoon at the end of March, 16 B-25s were spaced trimly over the aircraft carrier Hornet's flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Magoya. They were to land at small Chinese airfields, refuel and meet at Chungking. It would be single-file, hit-&-run, each crew on its own. "If we all get to Chungking, I'll throw the biggest goddamn party you ever...
...with an admiral at the controls. But four hours later she sent him out as smoothly, calmly as if she had been running an airport-control tower since Kitty Hawk. This time there was no damage to cosmetics. She had heard the Admiral, George D. Murray, who commanded the Hornet, pronounce her work excellent...
Until this week few knew that Enterprise played an important part in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. She met the carrier Hornet in the Western Pacific, and provided air cover for the task force's final approach to the Japanese mainland. Hornet had her flight deck cluttered with Doolittle's big B-25 bombers, and would have been unable to get her fighter planes up to fend off a sudden enemy air attack...
Announced U.S. losses (not including those in naval actions during the last fortnight-see p. 23): two carriers (Hornet, Wasp), six cruisers, 13 destroyers, five transports, "hundreds" of men, an undisclosed number of airplanes...
...Navy began the war with seven carriers. Four were sunk in the first year: Lexington, York town, Wasp, Hornet. That left three. The Japs, though they had lost between six and eight, still had perhaps five...