55 items in this album on 3 pages.
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US Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and wife Annie Reid Knox at the christening ceremony of USS Hornet, Newport News shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 30 Aug 1943 | USS Hornet (Essex-class) laying off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 19 Dec 1943 shortly after commissioning showing off her MS33/3a paint scheme. Photo 1 of 4. | USS Hornet (Essex-class) laying off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 19 Dec 1943 shortly after commissioning showing off her MS33/3a paint scheme. Photo 2 of 4. | USS Hornet (Essex-class) laying off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 19 Dec 1943 shortly after commissioning showing off her MS33/3a paint scheme. Photo 3 of 4. |
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USS Hornet (Essex-class) laying off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 19 Dec 1943 shortly after commissioning showing off her MS33/3a paint scheme. Photo 4 of 4. | 1944 plan for camouflage Measure 31-32-33, Design 3a on Essex-class fleet carriers. Of the 17 Essex-class carriers to see service during 1944-45, 3 were painted according to this plan plus 1 with this only on one side | F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 2 being shot from the hangar deck catapult of the Fleet Carrier USS Hornet (Essex-class) during training in Chesapeake Bay, Feb 12 1944. | Essex-class Aircraft carrier USS Hornet gliding into Berth F-9 on the northwest corner of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Mar 1944. Note SB2C Helldivers on the flight deck and Measure 33, Design 3a paint. |
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Elements of Task Force 58 of the US Navy 5th Fleet at anchor, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, probably Apr 1944 | Stock Certificate for the Jocko Jima Development Company created by the pilots of the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944, due to Jocko Clark’s obsessive interest in attacking the “Jima” islands (the Bonins). | Bow on view of USS Hornet (Essex-class) at anchor in Berth X-14, Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 29 May 1944. Note F6F Hellcat fighters spotted on the flight deck. | TBM-1C Avenger crash landed aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class) after the landing gear collapsed due to hydraulic failure from battle damage, 15 Jun 1944. Photo 1 of 2. |
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TBM-1C Avenger crash landed aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class) after the landing gear collapsed due to hydraulic failure from battle damage, 15 Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2. | TBM-1C Avengers of VT-2 with wheels and arrester hooks down above the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) after a strike on Guam, 18 Jul 1944. Note rocket rails and ASB radar antennas under the wings. | SB2C-1C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 2 has its landing gear tangled in the arresting cables after a landing on USS Hornet (Essex-class), Mar-Sep 1944. | Broadside view of the starboard side of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) under way showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 5 Sep 1944. |
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An SB2C Helldiver making its final landing approach on the carrier Hornet (Essex-class) operating in the Pacific, 1944 | Broadside view of the port side of the USS Hornet (Essex-class) at anchor showing her Dazzle MS33/3a paint scheme, 1944, probably at Ulithi. | F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-11, the Sundowners, preparing for take off from the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944. | F6F-5 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-11, the ‘Sundowners,’ following a very hard landing on the USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944. |
55 items in this album on 3 pages.