For the U.S. aircraft carrier the USS Hornet, it would be her last battle. Now, researchers are revealing Petrel found the wreckage of the USS Hornet in late January – exactly what they were ...

Wikimedia CommonsThe USS Hornet leaving Hampton Roads in October 1941. The search for the wreckage of the USS Hornet, an American aircraft carrier used during the Tokyo air raid in World War II, has ...

The wreck of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) has been discovered off the Solomon Islands by a research organization set up by the late billionaire Paul Allen. The carrier was ...

humans have laid eyes on the USS Hornet, which was sunk in October 1942 during World War II's Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. A research vessel discovered wreckage of the aircraft carrier in ...

(Photo: U.S. Navy Archives.) The USS Hornet wreck was discovered using a remotely piloted submersible vehicle at a depth of 17,716 feet. Advanced sonar detection equipment spotted an object ...

The USS Hornet was engaged in the Battle of the Santa ... Now, for the first time, we are viewing images of the wreckage of the Hornet, which was discovered last month by the expedition crew ...

The wreckage of the World War II-era USS Hornet that launched long-range bombers against Japan during the Doolittle Raid was found late last month in the South Pacific, researchers announced Tuesday.

Some eight decades after 16 bombers left the U.S. for a brazen bombing raid on Tokyo following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small piece of wreckage from the squadron that became known as the ...

Late last month a research vessel called the R/V Petrel found the USS Hornet’s wreckage more than 17,000 feet below the surface of the South Pacific, near the Solomon Islands. The Petrel carries ...

Damage on the hull of the USS Hornet. Photo courtesy of Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. A five-inch gun on the wreckage of the USS Hornet. Photo courtesy of Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. An F4F-4 ...