WASHINGTON--The U. S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet went down swinging, her planes scoring hits on 12 Jap warships and three auxillaries, sinking four transports and destroying at least 60 Jap planes in five fierce months of fighting before she perished Oct. 26, an official Navy obituary of the gallant craft revealed tonight.
The Hornot died in the great air-sea battle of Santa Cruz in the Southwest Pacific, but most of her men lived to avenge her. All but 120 of her complement of 2900 fighting men were rescued before American torpedoes and shells delivered the stricken carrier from her agony.
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