Good story, thanks for posting it. Another tribute to The Greatest Generation.

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Yah but they sank it, we found it!!!

USS Enterprise takes the cake for 1942 (and the entire war), but USS Hornet saw a lot of action in the six months from showing up in the Pacific until being sunk (Apr-Oct 1942).

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"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing that the Enterprise and the Saratoga survived the entire war.

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Fascinating piece of history. Thanks.

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

My grandfather flew B-25s in WWII......not off the Hornet. But, way back when, he gave me his copy of the book 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. Its a pretty cool and chilling story of the Hornet and the B-25 Doolittle raid....great reading.

When we rebadged the 77th Bomb Squadron to the 34th Bomb Squadron (“Thunderbirds”) in 2002, we invited 2 of the members of the Doolittle Raid to come and be a part of it. The 34th BS was one of the squadrons that had members in the raid. Got to have dinner with them, an absolute delight to meet them. There is only one Doolittle “Raider” left, and that is Doolittle’s copilot, who was with us that night. I still have a 34th BS patch signed by both of them.

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Taco cat spelled backwards is....taco cat.