THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE USS HORNET PART 1 2122
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One of the
U.S. Navy's industrial incentive films, the
Life and Death of the
USS Hornet traces the valiant career of
CV-8. Footage includes the launching of the
Doolittle Raider B-25s on their mission to strike
Tokyo in
1942, including
White House reaction by
President Roosevelt that the planes came from "Shangri-La." Also on this film, is footage of the ill-fated
Torpedo 8 Squadron which was sacrificed at the
Battle of Midway. The carrier USS Hornet was sunk during the
Battle of Santa Cruz, and the film ends with the launch of a "new" Hornet
CV-12.
This film is part of the
Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections
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