USS Hornet was commissioned on 20 October 1941. She launched Lt Col. “Jimmy” Doolittle’s sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers on 18 April 1942 for the raid on the Japanese mainland. On 6 June, Hornet VB-8 and VS-8 SBD dive-bombers assist
Categories: World War II | Ships and Submarines
 
 
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