I wear it with pride everyday and show just about everyone I meet. We went on the shakedown cruise in January. We decided to follow them.
At this point, I fell out of a climbing turn and ended up on top of a group of enemy torpedo planes that were descending to attack the HORNET.
Leaving a ship which had been my home was more trying than saying goodbye to a dying friend. We now had our work cut out for us.The Hornet and its Air Group were made ready for sea in record time. A group of fighter planes remained to protect the ships. I wanted to go places and see exciting things so I requested Scouting Squadron 8 (VS8). Captain Mason gave the order to “Abandon ship.”Hospital corpsmen were dispatched to all accessible spaces of HORNET in a final search for wounded shipmates.
Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attacked Pearl Harbor.Immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt tasked senior U.S. military commanders with finding a suitable response to assuage the public outrage and a daring plan began to take shape.An initial proof-of-concept test was conducted off Norfolk, VA. Two lightly loaded B-25s were flown off the brand new Hornet following completion of her sea trials. My relief came at 4pm and told me about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The skipper went down safely but only hadAfter taking part in raids against Bouganville, Faisi and the Shortland Islands, we ended up in battle at Santa Cruz 26 October 1942. There were charts in the radar control room where raids were plotted.
No attempt was made to intercept and destroy it. USS Hornet (CV-8) was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier that entered service with the U.S. Navy in 1941.The last ship of its class, Hornet earned famed in April 1942 when Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle launched his famed raid on Japan from the carrier's deck. CV-12 - USS Hornet - Booklet of General Plans, 5 of 19 pages, Essex Class, cv12.pdf (7.3 MB PDF) CV-41 - USS Midway - Booklet of General Plans, 1987, Midway Class, SVB Upgrade Class, cv41.pdf (4.7 MB PDF) CV-60 - USS Saratoga - Booklet of General Plans, 1993, Forestal Class, SLEP, cv60.pdf (19.2 MB PDF) The director was a great place to watch all the action.
Two of us were on the search radar 4 hours and off 8 hours. Ours was a chart on a table with a plastic cover for a plotting surface. It was a sight I shall never forget. Although mostly unaware, because of censorship, of the full extent to our losses in planes, ships and personnel, the American people were stunned by the bleak newspaper headlines and reports.American leaders, from President Roosevelt down, realized that some kind of offensive action against the Japanese mainland was sorely needed to boost morale of both our armed forces and the American public. There were to be no lights visible outside the ship, not even a cigarette. Captain Mason called the Chief Engineer: “Give us all the speed you have—a dive bombing attack is coming in.”The ship’s 5-inch batteries opened up, followed by the 40 and 20mm mounts, as the engines strained at full speed and the HORNET began evasive maneuvering to avoid the attacking planes. I didn’t wake up until morning.
One dive bomber, bombs in racks and machine guns blazing, dove vertically into the stack, glanced off, then crashed through the signal bridge deck.
Living conditions were much better when we were in more temperate waters.We steamed into Pearl Harbor May 26th. We had at least three range settings. We reached Pearl Harbor with no problems. All of this activity was 800 miles from the Japanese coast——400 miles sooner than the planned launch point.Since the task force had been sighted, and the element of surprise gone, the decision was made to launch the bombers immediately.
Achieving complete surprise over the Americans was his key prerequisite for success. I learned some seamanship and what it might have been like to have been a deck hand. I went up a ladder and found my way to the catwalk just under the flight deck. When all survivors were out of the water, the Anderson and another destroyer started to sink the Hornet. We did not have the round screens, PPI (point position indicator) that are used today.
The director was the “brain” of the fire control system for the forward 5-inch antiaircraft guns. It was a CNO order for HORNET to launch the B—25s for an attack on Tokyo and other nearby cities. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle.
USS CV-8 Hornet… The engine from this plane came through into the ready room forward; the Duty Officer and l were in the aft part of the space. CV-8 USS Hornet - 1/350 Trumpeter (10 images) richardmbungay.
It was learned later that the Japanese executed three of the prisoners and systematically slaughtered all Chinese who had helped the American flyers after they crashed.Reaction by the American people to this first small attack upon the Japanese homeland was understandably jubilant.
The torpedoes hit with a dull roar, opening more starboard compartments to the sea.
We actually slept on station and ate cold sandwiches and hot coffee.In addition to a lifejacket, I wore a “swim master belt” under my flash suit.
Buckets on lines were lowered to the sea, brought back up to the deck, and passed along by hand. They told us that there was coffee and sandwiches in the galley.
My phone had a 30 ft. cord which gave me a lot of freedom to move but I had to keep the phone set on, no matter what happened around me. I would go from our air-conditioned radar room to my sleeping quarters after midnight 2 of every 3 days. I am digitally paintinga profile of her alongside the HIJMS Zuikaku. Christmas of 1940 came and I was very depressed and discouraged. This kit took me 8 months to build averaging about 2 hours a day - I finished it in 2003. He warned that no bombs were to be dropped on the Emperor’s Palace.
King, Chief of Naval Operations, proposed flying Army bombers off an aircraft carrier to bomb Tokyo. Then I saw an enemy torpedo plane low on the water headed for the Big E; I started shooting at full deflection with the two guns I had left.