Sixteen aircraft dropped 124,000 pounds of ordnance in less than two minutes during a Feb. 1 airstrike in Somalia, a defense ...

During the last great power naval conflict, the U.S. Navy learned the importance of battle damage repair for sustaining a ...

Some eight decades after 16 bombers left the U.S. for a brazen bombing raid on Tokyo following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small piece of wreckage from the squadron that became known as the ...

In this video, we tell the remarkable story of the USS Hornet, one of WWII’s most decorated ... Doolittle Raid and the decisive Battle of Midway. Despite her courageous service, her journey ...

“I’ve always been fascinated by museum ships,” recalling a visit to the USS Midway Museum as a child. He started volunteering at the USS Hornet in 2019 and said jokingly that he never left. VFleet ...

The Battle of Midway was also instigated after the Doolittle air raid (also called the Tokyo air raid), which was the first assault on the Japanese mainland by the US. It was launched from the USS ...

But that is exactly what happened on June 4, 1942 during the Battle of Midway. The USS Enterprise, USS Yorktown, and the USS Hornet launched a total of 41 Devastators against the Japanese fleet.

which included the USS Hornet and USS Enterprise (one of many Naval ships to carry the name), left Pearl Harbor for Midway, joined by a repaired Yorktown later. The three carriers and their ...

The USS Hornet (CV-8) was commissioned on October ... She continued to operate in the Pacific Theater including the Battle of Midway and the Guadalcanal campaign. On October 26, 1942, during ...

Although the Battle of Midway was not the largest naval battle ... USS Yorktown, and the USS Hornet played important roles. For Japan, the IJN Soryu, IJN Kaga, and IJN Akagi each rose to meet ...