Warship Guide - USS Hornet CV-8

USS Hornet was the final member of the Yorktown class to be built and was named after a Continental sloop from the Revolutionary War. Hornet helped bear the brunt of the Japanese onslaught during the early days of the Pacific War. She stung the Japanese Empire with the famous Doolittle raid and participated in 2 of the major carrier battles of 1942, and at one point, WAS the only operational US flattop in the Pacific. In her final action, she endured a beating and refused to go down, ultimately taking 7 Japanese torpedoes and 3 bomb hits, in addition to several US torpedoes and over 400 shell hits during a failed scuttling before finally sinking.


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