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One "Val", after being heavily damaged by antiaircraft fire while approaching Hornet, crashed into the carrier's island, killing seven men and spreading burning aviation gas over the deck. A flight of Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers attacked Hornet and scored two hits, which seriously damaged the electrical systems and engines.
On the morning of 26 October, 1942, HORNET was operating north of Santa Cruz Islands as part of a task force. Enemy action during the day was expected and the ship was at General Quarters with condition "Afirm" set before and during the attacks.
Not to be outdone, an enemy dive bomber apparently overshot the carrier in his dive, whirled around, and deliberately crashed his airplane into the ship. Heavily damaged, taking water and afire, Hornet began to lose headway, finally coming to a stop, dead in the water at around 9:40 a.m.
8 Αυγ 2024 · USS Hornet Museum. August 8, 2024. The seventh U.S. Navy ship named Hornet was an early aircraft carrier commissioned in October 1941. USS Hornet (CV-8) was the third and final member of the Yorktown-class, commissioned just weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a pre-World War II vessel, her size was limited in accordance with ...
intentionally crashed his aircraft into Hornet’s island superstructure. This destroyed the signal bridge and rained live ordnance and flaming debris onto, and through, the flight deck below. As the last group of the bombers dove down, the torpedo aircraft closed in from multiple directions.
12 Φεβ 2019 · The late Paul Allen’s research team discovered the wreckage of World War II’s USS Hornet (CV-8), the aircraft carrier that launched the Doolittle Raid and participated in the Battle of Midway before being sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands by Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and ship-launched torpedoes.
12 Φεβ 2019 · More than 75 years after the aircraft carrier USS Hornet sank in a World War II battle, researchers have uncovered its wreckage 3 miles under the South Pacific Ocean. The Hornet played a...
