She was hit by a total of three bombs, two torpedoes, and two Aichi D3As that both crashed on the ship. On the 26th, she was attacked by several waves of Japanese torpedo bombers and dive bombers. Sadly for Hornet, this would be her last battle. It’s only in October that Enterprise would join the party again, right in time for the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. Enterprise and Saratoga were damaged in August and Wasp was sunk in September. However, she also lost a tremendous amount of planes in the battle either from Japanese defenses or from them being forced to ditch in the ocean when they ran out of fuel after failing to find the enemy fleet.īy the end of September 1942, Hornet was the only operational carrier in the South Pacific. Later on, Hornet took part in the Battle of Midway during which her squadrons helped in sinking the heavy cruiser Mikuma, heavily damaging the heavy cruiser Mogami, and also damaging a destroyer. (Technically, it was more with Midway but still wanted to place that one.) It was at this moment Japan knew… they f*cked up. While the damage from the bombing was quite low, it had a profound psychological impact on both sides. On the 18th of April 1942, 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers that had been specially modified for the mission took off from Hornet to bomb strategic targets in Japan. While her career was a short one, it was also intense with her first major action of the war being the famous Doolittle Raid. The ship was laid down in September 1939, launched in December 1940, and commissioned in October 1941. USS Hornet was the third ship of the Yorktown-class of aircraft carriers from the U.S. Is she worth it? Is she able to compete against the rest of the tier VIII carriers? Here is my opinion on it. The ship will be available in the Armory for a minimum of 12 300 doubloons and in the premium shop for 40,46 € for the basic bundle. Ladies and Gentlemen, Enterprise’s little sister Hornet is finally arriving in the game and she didn’t forget her B-25 Mitchell bombers.
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