A trip to the USS Hornet Alameda California

Download

Trail photos

Photo ofA trip to the USS Hornet Alameda California

Author

Moonshinedf

2,303 576 1909

See more trails from this author

Trail stats

Distance: 23.37 mi
Elevation gain: 259 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 528 ft
Max elevation: 251 ft
TrailRank: 33
Min elevation: -98 ft
Trail type: One Way

Moving time: 3 hours 13 minutes
Time: 4 hours
Coordinates: 1721
Uploaded: April 17, 2021
Recorded: April 2021

Be the first to clap

near Fairview, California (United States)

Viewed 62 times, downloaded 0 times

Trail photos

Itinerary description

USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, 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. Her wreck was located in late January 2019 near the Solomon Islands.