Search results for "USS Hornet (CV-8)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his ... 25 medium bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, with targets in Tokyo ...
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  • 1942) by USAAF B-25s staging off the carrier USS Hornet. The raid, while militarily ... intelligence information suggesting that USS Enterprise and USS Hornet ...
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  • home. Amphibious assault carriers (such as USS Tarawa or HMS Ocean), operate ... four times that of the World War II-era USS Enterprise, yet its complement ...
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  • whose flagship was the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. The Allied commander ... later) and heavily damaging the destroyer USS Jarvis. In the air attacks ...
    54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
  • Nagumo began launching, the minesweeper USS Condor spotted a midget submarine ... Franklin Van Valkenburgh, commander of USS Arizona, both rushed to the ...
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  • first battle between ironclad warships (the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at ... fire in mind; the first of these ships, USS Nevada, was laid down in 1912 ...
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  • Before dawn on July 24, Hornet launched four Sea King helicopters ... from Hornet, with 6|ft|m| seas and winds at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph ...
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  • welcomes the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the U.S.S. Hornet.jpg|thumb|350px|The Apollo 11 crew and President Nixon during the post-mission quarantine period]] ...
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