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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...
Lieutenant Commander William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, U.S.N., was the skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
About 100 miles out they passed a great covey of Jap planes which were heading for the Hornet's task force. Later they found the Jap ships-but to get to them they had to fly 75 miles with Zeros buzzing around their heads...
...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...