"THE LIFE AND DEATH OF USS HORNET" CV-8 YORKTOWN CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIER @ BATTLE OF MIDWAY 81704

The Life and Death of the U.S.S. Hornet is a short Navy film that gives viewers a brief history of the famous CV-8 Yorktown-class aircraft carrier. The film opens with a shot of the nation’s Capitol Building, followed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt making a statement in the Oval Office about the B-25 bombing mission from “Shangri-La,” the code name for the USS Hornet. At a shipyard, men and women build the carrier (01:37). The USS Hornet is launched on 14 December 1940 (02:16). Supplies are loaded onto the Hornet. Men and women inventory the ship’s cargo. On 21 October 1941, men of the Hornet stand at attention as their commander speaks to them (04:00). The ship leaves the docks and is out at sea for training. Douglas SBD Dauntlesses take off from the Hornet (04:57). A Grumman F4F Wildcat has a rough landing on the carrier and nearly careens off into the ocean. Lt. Col. James Doolittle’s North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers sit on the deck of the ship (06:21). Bombs are loaded onto the B-25s and the aircraft are readied for takeoff (06:50). Doolittle watches as the bombers take off for the raid on Tokyo. Men of Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8) pose for photographs before their fateful mission during the Battle of Midway (08:20); footage shows a number of the crew and the lone survivor, George Gay. The men take off in Douglas TBD Devastators. A memorial service is held on the Hornet for the fallen men of Torpedo 8. Pilots sit in a briefing room (11:10), then they take off in their planes during the Battle of Santa Cruz. Japanese bombers come into range and the Hornet’s gunners shoot down the enemy planes (12:00). Smoke billows from the ship as it is hit by torpedoes and Japanese kamikaze fighters. Men of the USS Hornet abandon ship for the safety of nearby Navy vessels (13:50). U.S. Navy ships fire on the Hornet to sink the damaged carrier (14:27). Wounded men are evacuated off the ships once back in the U.S. (15:15). A new carrier is launched, one of many new ships being built for the Navy, concluding the film.
USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh ship to carry the name Hornet was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai Raid. In the Solomon Islands campaign, she was involved in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands where she was irreparably damaged by enemy torpedo and dive bombers. Faced with an approaching Japanese surface force, Hornet was abandoned and later torpedoed and sunk by approaching Japanese destroyers. Hornet was in service for a year and six days and was the last US fleet carrier ever sunk by enemy fire. For these actions, she was awarded four service stars, a citation for the Doolittle Raid in 1942, and her Torpedo Squadron 8 received a Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism for the Battle of Midway.
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[@rescuepetsrule6842]

What a hero she was! As for all the planes she, and many others, shot down, the film makes it look easy. Imagine your a gunner on a moving ship aiming at a fast moving target and the whole time the Ocean swells and winds are also moving you- I call that some kind of special talent. SALUTE Hornet & her men!

[@KennethStone]

I currently work on the USS Hornet CV-12 museum. It's quite an amazing ship to work on, and I love these stories about our predecessor.

[@jamesbridge6408]

Excellent, up periscope!

[@wntu4]

Tough watching those smiling kids of Torpedo 8. :(

[@tom7601]

Thank you!

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[@robharding4028]

There is certainly something to be said in this film, about the shear patriotism of these brave sailors, soldiers and airmen , many never made it back, We salute every last one of you brave souls ! Thank you for your dedication and in deed, sacrifice. God bless you all !

[@jamesmarshall9598]

Torpedo 8 lives on!

[@katherinegates1559]

✌️🇺🇸 God Bless Our America....🇺🇸

[@geraldcampetella9420]

God WILL NOT bless America, until we REPENT OF OUR NATIONAL SINS.We have murdered millions of innocent babies , in abortion.

[@davidreeves8388]

Wish I grew up then when men and women loved america look at the mite of america and how beautiful these men are the greatest generation

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Keep in mind that many members of the Greatest Generation returned only to be Second Class Citizens...

[@jeffreywolf5235]

And look at us now a bunch of tyrants fighting Wars all over the world that we should never be in they never threatened us they never attacked us. There was no plans to attack us. But we just want their resources or receive change. And myself I don't have much hope for America anymore of 49. And the last 20 years I've just lost a lot of respect for this country. With all the lying and gaslighting going on and then this hoax of a pandemic. It's not a pandemic when it's planned. And it's likely a military weapon that we're dealing with now made designed in the lab and they've had the Cure the entire time

[@marine4lyfe85]

@@davidhollenshead4892 They weren't considered second class citizens to those with which they served. America has never been perfect, but freedom allows us to strive to be a more perfect union. I love the United States of America and wouldn't want my children or grandchildren raised in any other country.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Sadly, piloting a torpedo bomber at that time was a suicide mission, but still those men did their duty. Much to be admired...

[@nogod7184]

CV-8. The first and only Navy aircraft carrier that launched Air Force planes.

[@adamtruong1759]

I am quite skeptical of that, not going to lie.

[@nogod7184]

@@adamtruong1759 Please educate me if I am wrong.

[@adamtruong1759]

Well,... USS Wasp launched Spitfires to deliver to Malta, twice.

[@katherinegates1559]

✌️🇺🇸 The Great and Mighty Hornet 🇺🇸 Never To Be Forgotten...🇺🇸

[@johnmehaffey9953]

The hornet launched the Doolittle raid on Japan and the planes were not navy planes, not sure if they where airforce or army, google it an it’ll clear it up

[@Ti-JAC]

wonderful. Thank you.

[@user-jb9ic9yr2n]

Вечная память погибшим морякам... Аминь

[@TSemasFl]

It's a shame we lost the Hornet, it would have great WWII museum ship.

[@NamVetBuck]

CVS 12 Hornet IS a museum ship !

[@johnangier506]

Hornet wasn't sunk at the battle of Midway in June of 42. She was sunk at the battle of Vera Cruz Oct 26, 1942. The only carrier we lost at Midway was the USS Yorktown. Hornet was there but was not sunk during the Midway battle. I don't know where this came from. Look it up.

[@plugs313]

Santa Cruz was the battle...

[@nealskrenes2612]

@@plugs313 I don’t know where you got the idea the video said otherwise.

[@plugs313]

I was repying to the comment above...

[@TedBronson1918]

Did the captain of the Hornet get a new ship to command, or did that end his career ?

[@gerryroncolato8895]

Not sure whether he got another ship, but he retired as a Vice Admiral.

[@nealskrenes2612]

He wasn’t negligent why would it end his career?

[@user-dt6ub7pk8m]

It was sunny that the U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown was repaired in just three days and put out on the battlefield.

[@snakeplissken2018]

She was a great ship and she died hard very hard but she was no Enterprise

[@metro_1543]

Damn, I thought the hornet survived ww2, I never knew it sunk. At least the big E survived the war.

[@richardcline1337]

Yes, only to have it's own country do to it what the Japanese never could....destroy it. They saved some renamed Essex class but destroyed the real hero of the war! Personally, I'd give up ANY of the museum ships of the Essex class to have saved her!

[@richardcline1337]

The Hornet that survived the war was another ship, an Essex class, USS Hornet (CV-12).

[@davidhollenshead4892]

@@richardcline1337 It had to be sunk to prevent Imperial Japan from salvaging it...

[@richardcline1337]

@@davidhollenshead4892, I was referring to the Enterprise.

[@petepal55]

Only a few misstatements of facts in it, probably to confuse the enemy if they captured the film.🙄

[@TheDoodybutch]

Compare this ship to the outrageously priced lemons these lousy union shipyards produce today.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Union Workers meet regularly for training in their field and produce some of the finest craftsmanship on the planet, you F-ing Dbag!!!

[@marchellochiovelli7259]

@@davidhollenshead4892 Did not take long to trigger some union worker. Meanwhile most jobs went over seas because of over priced unions and their constant demand for more money and less work. Don't even get me started on the daily corruption the unions had going.....But hey, as long as you have a job right?

[@davidreeves8388]

My granfather was sunk on this ship and the lexington

[@josephmcbride1239]

As was my grandfather, he was on that ship from the beginning of the war until she went down. He survived the sinking and the war and went on to fight in korea.

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[@richardcline1337]

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[@merlemorrison482]

I thought that Col Doolittle lead the raid - not watched it take off?

[@raoulcruz4404]

Merle Morrison Says Doolittle dipped his wing to adm Halsey

[@merlemorrison482]

@@raoulcruz4404 yeah, I saw that - but in the expanded comments they stated that he watched the take off. guess the printers gremlins got involved....

[@jamesbridge6408]

That was Halsey on deck

[@thomasheath8953]

I got the chance to talk with Doolittle's copilot, truly a humble man, RIP Dick Cole

[@None-zc5vg]

I thought Mitscher, not Halsey, commanded the 'Hornet' during the 'Doolittle Raid'.