USS Hornet (CV-12) - From Fighting Japan to The Space Race
No ship that survives to become a museum is obscure. USS Hornet, however, is famous even by museum ship standards. A hard fought war career, leading into working with the Apollo Program, with a detour off Vietnam. She had a successful career, albeit one quite a bit shorter than her sister, Lexington.
Her fame is, admittedly, helped by becoming a paranormal sensation in recent times. 'Most Haunted Ship in America' and all that.
Her museum staff also have a firm finger on the pulse of pop culture, so there's that.
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I imagine the ghosts that moved from the original Hornet were like, "This Hornet is not our Hornet but meh, close enough!"
One of the better accounts of the Hornet without going overboard with ghosts. I walked on the ship on June 1, 1998 as a volunteer and am still there restoring the Island superstructure in and out. My avatar is of the plane I was asked to restore in 2000. As for ghosts I haven't heard a thing and I have spent nights in the Chief of Staffs Sea Cabin in the Island. Even caught once cleaning the gallery deck at midnight and someone thought they heard a ghost till they saw me.
One of Hornet’s pilots was Butch Voris. He would first see combat in 1942 as part of the VF-10 “Grim Reapers” flying from Enterprise at the Battles of Santa Cruz. Where he saw CV-8 go down. As well as the Guadalcanal Campaign. When VF-10 returned to the states in 1943. Voris would he transferred to VF-2 “Rippers.” Once again flying from Enterprise at the Gilbert Islands and helped Butch O’Hare with his “Bat Team” night fighter experiments. He would remain with VF-2 when they deployed on Hornet in the first half of 1944. Including the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Why would you apologize for delivering a longer vid about an interesting topic? Gods damn the short attention span of all those young whippersnappers out there
My father served as a signalman aboard the Hornet during WW2. When he visited my sister in San Francisco a few years ago, she asked him if he wanted to go see the ship. He said, "I've seen it."
Great video what a career she had
The prop swirl on that hellcat while youre talking about her going backwards to launch planes is too cool.
Absolutely love it awesome job once again as always thanks for a little longer video than usual very informative looking to the next one
My home Canberra is tricky to pronounce; you did very well. ❤ HMAS CANBERRA ❤️ USS CANBERRA
How about USS YORKTOWN CV-10 and USS LEXINGTON CV-16?
Yeah.
Miles Browning was still less abrasive and less arrogant and less incompetent, than the grossly inadequate for command, Halsey.
Haunting is
Majuro, May 1944.
Good video. But your inflections in the narration sometimes make it difficult to follow what is being said.
First.