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    USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the...
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    Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942. USS Hornet (CV-12) was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World...
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    original USS Hornet (CV-8) was lost in October 1942 in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. The erstwhile Valley Forge was renamed Princeton after USS Princeton (CVL-23)...
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    twin-engine B-25 bombers from USS Hornet (CV-8) to bomb Tokyo in April 1942, served as Admiral Raymond Spruance's chief of staff aboard USS Enterprise during the...
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  • (APA-120) USS Hobson (DD-464) USS Hodges (DE-231) USS Hopkins (DD-249) USS Hornet (CV-8) 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz in the first Kamikaze attack USS Howorth...
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    USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the ship...
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    L-8 delivered vital B-25 modification parts to the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) after she departed California carrying the Doolittle Raiders, ahead...
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    embarkation aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. On April 18, Doolittle and his 16 B-25 crews took off from Hornet, reached Japan, and bombed their targets...
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    Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet Museum". www.uss-hornet.org. Archived from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015. "USS Hornet CV-8". www.its.caltech...
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    transferred to USS Hornet (CV-8) in the summer of 1942. USS Yorktown (CV-5)-Installed between July and August 1940 with initial delivery of CXAM USS...
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