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How Alameda’s USS Hornet can help prevent climate change
KRON via Yahoo News· 1 week ago(KRON) — The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum in Alameda became the hub for a group of researchers...
80 years ago, he survived sinking of USS Hornet. Fresno-area vet shares his WWII story
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoEighty years ago, Bob Cole was a sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the South Pacific. It...
Sarasota man helped track Apollo 11 back to earth
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year ago[Editor's note: A reference to the USS Hornet CVS-12 being involved in the Doolittle Raid was removed. The USS Hornet CVS-8 was involved in the surprise...
How a remote lagoon and a 'secret weapon' allowed the US Navy to overwhelm Japanese forces during...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUS Navy aircraft carriers, from front to back, USS Wasp, USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, USS Hancock, and...
San Francisco is hosting the fourth annual ‘World Goth Day’
KRON via Yahoo News· 2 months ago(KRON)– The Menagerie Oddities, a California-based event organizer dubbing themselves as a “Jolly...
Doolittle Raiders relied 'on the kindness of Chinese strangers.' This Gulf Breeze man helped
Northwest Florida Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGULF BREEZE — An art-filled home on a quiet residential street nestled between the East Bay and...
Chart a Course: Famous Ships You Can Visit Across America and Beyond
Cheapism via AOL· 11 months agocsfotoimages/istockphoto Walk the Planks Ahoy, mate! Vacations often revolve around road trips to...
On This Day, July 24: Apollo 11 astronauts splash down
United Press International via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPararescueman Lt. Clancy Hatleberg closes the Apollo 11 spacecraft hatch as astronauts Neil...
On This Day, April 18: Ireland declares independence from Britain
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoOn April 18, 1949, the Republic of Ireland formally declared itself independent from Britain. Photo...
Why the Doolittle Raid required a handmade bombsight
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPhoto courtesy National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The Norden bombsight was the primary bombsight used by American bombers during WWII. Before the...