#USS Hornet (CV-12)

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Recovery Helicopter 66, also known as "Old 66", on USS HORNET (CVS-12), with the operation’s motto "Three More Like Before." This helicopter was used to recover the astronauts from Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13.

"Following the Apollo 11 mission, the Navy switched to a three-digit designation system and Helicopter 66 was retagged Helicopter 740. Recognizing the fame Helicopter 66 had achieved, the Navy began the practice of repainting Helicopter 740 as Helicopter 66 for the later recovery missions in which it participated, Apollo 12 and Apollo 13, painting it back as Helicopter 740 at the conclusion of each mission."

- Information from Wikipedia: link

Later, it crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1975 during a training exercise. At the time of its crash, it had logged more than 3,200 hours of service.

Date: November 24, 1969

WA – Navy Apollo 12 – recovery 12, Hornet-CBS-A12-HS4-NASA-01

NASA ID: link

#Apollo 12 #Apollo CSM Block II #CSM-108 #Yankee Clipper #NASA #Apollo Program #H-type mission #Splash Down #Splashdown #Recovery #USS Hornet (CV-12) #USS Hornet #Essex Class #Aircraft Carrier #Pacific Ocean #November #1969 #United States Navy #US #Navy #Helicopter 66 #Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King #SH-3 #Helicopter #Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Four #HS-4

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(Front to Back) USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Enterprise (CV-6); USS Hornet (CV-12) and USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) docked at the Air Station's piers, in Naval Air Station, Alameda, California, circa mid-September 1945.

Note: the Consolidated PBY Catalinas parked at the far left.

NHHC: 80-G-701512

#USS Saratoga (CV-3) #USS Saratoga #Lexington Class #USS Enterprise (CV-6) #USS Enterprise #Yorktown Class #USS Hornet (CV-12) #USS Hornet #Essex Class #USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) #USS San Jacinto #Independence Class #Light Carrier #Aircraft Carrier #Warship #Ship #Alameda #California #west coast #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #September #1945 #my post

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24 July 1969, CV-12 USS Hornet prepares to recover Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia.

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USS Hornet (CVS-12) preparing to recover the Apollo 12 Command Module 'Yankee Clipper' southeast of Samoa, November 24, 1969.

#november #naval #cold war

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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Hornet, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57 (CVSG-57), was deployed to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 27 March to 28 October 1967.USN Image

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An F2H-3 and three F2H-4s of Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11 off USS Hornet (CVS-12) in flight, 1959

#us navy #usn #F2H #Banshee #warbirds #formation #aviation history #VAW 11

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Shipgirl appreciation day: USS Hornet

Hornet, or USS CV-8, is the youngest of the 4 Yorktown class carriers. She often appears very carefree and bubbly, but in truth she can often be a bit mysterious, and hard to read. Not that she's telling anyone

"information about the great Hornet is off limits!" USS Hornet

"maybe we're in sync with each other… if only Hornet and I could be like that…" USS Northampton

Hornet has quite a bit of confidence in herself, and enjoys thrills and anything that gets her adrenaline pumping. Running, sailing, jet skis, or throwing various things around

"Doolittle Style Mail delivery!" USS Hornet

"Hornet? She's going crazy on that Jetski"

USS Enterprise

However, despite her confidence, she often has a hard time either realizing or accepting that people have a romantic interest in her, reacting with surprise or defleftion

"Wait a second, Hornet? You're talking about me!"

"now which of them are you smitten by?"

Hornet later on obtained a second version of herself. Based on the Essex class CV-12 Hornet

Hornet's confidence seems to have shot up into overdrive with her new look and new ability, as she's stepped out of her sister's shdow

"after all, I can't be playing second fiddle to her forever!"

Hornet as well has always had a bit of a rivalry with zuikaku. However, this seems to be a bit one sided, as Zuikaku mostly sees her as only enterprise's sister, instead of her own Person

"take this, sister of the grey ghost!" IJN Zuikaku

However, stepping out of her sister's shadow, and taking a good look at Hornet herself, will reveal a free spirited yet driven shipgirl who will always get back up if she's knocked down

#shipgirl appreciation day #azur lane #uss hornet

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Apollo 11

24 July 1969, CV-12 USS Hornet prepares to recover Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia.

Apollo Guidance Computer

#apollo 11 #moon day #buzz aldrin #neil armstrong #michael collins #uss hornet #Command Module

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USS Yorktown (CV-5) - Heavily damaged after bomb and torpedo attacks during the battle of Midway. While under tow back to Pearl Harbor, she was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-168 and sunk on June 7, 1942.

USS Hornet (CV-8) - After being heavily damaged by bomb and torpedo attacks during the battle Santa Cruz Islands, and with news of an enemy surface force approaching, she was ordered to be scuttled. However, she did not sink until the enemy surface force arrived and torpedoed her. She sunk on October 27, 1942.

USS Enterprise (CV-6) - Fought in every major battle and campaign in the Pacfic theatre, from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. She was the sole survivor out of the three sister ships in her class.

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The first image is supposed to represent the rendezvous of the three Yorktown-class sister ships before the battle of Midway. The Yorktown in on the left, with MS 12 camouflage, Enterprise in the center, with MS 11 camouflage, and Hornet on the right with the modified MS 12 camouflage.

The second image represents the Enterprise, with MS 21 camouflage, at the Hudson river for the 1945 Navy Day Fleet Review.

#Art #Random Art #Ship-pones #My Little Pony #MLP #World War 2 #WW2 #History #USS Enterprise #USS Yorktown #USS Hornet #Aircraft Carriers #Yorktown-class #Poor sad Enterprise #She misses her sisters #Someone give her a hug

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Just a flesh wound!!! A damaged TBF (note wingtip) lands on USS Hornet CV-12 during strikes in the Marianas area, June 1944. #usshornet #cv12 #tbfavenger #justafleshwound #wwii #navalsafari #aviationsafari #aviationpreservation #boneyardsafari

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"A United States Navy Underwater Demolition Team swimmer assists the Apollo 12 crew during recovery operations in the Pacific Ocean. In the life raft are astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. (facing camera), commander; Richard F. Gordon Jr. (middle), command module pilot; and Alan L. Bean (nearest camera), lunar module pilot. The three crew men of the second lunar landing mission were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS HORNET. Apollo 12 splashed down at 2:58 p.m. (CST), Nov. 24, 1969, near American Samoa."

Date: November 24, 1969

NASA ID: S69-22271

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#Apollo 12 #Apollo CSM Block II #CSM-108 #Yankee Clipper #NASA #Apollo Program #H-type mission #Splash Down #Splashdown #Recovery #USS Hornet (CV-12) #USS Hornet #Essex Class #Aircraft Carrier #Pacific Ocean #November #1969 #United States Navy #US #Navy #USN #Helicopter 66 #Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King #SH-3 #Helicopter #Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Four #HS-4

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40mm guns firing aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) on 16 February 1945, as the planes of Task Force 58 were raiding Tokyo. Note expended shells and ready-service ammunition at right.

#united states navy #warship #us navy #aircraft carrier

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24 July 1969, CV-12 USS Hornet prepares to recover Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia.

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A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of fighting squadron VF-15 launches from aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) via the hangar deck catapult, 25 February 1944

#wwii #aviation #pacific theater #february

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The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) operating near Okinawa, Japan, on 27 March 1945. The planes visible on deck belonged to Carrier Air Group 17 (CVG-17). The ship is painted in dazzle pattern Camouflage Measure 33, Design 3A.

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Crewmen inspect a damaged TBM on the deck of USS Hornet (CV-12) in the wake of Typhoon Cobra, December 1944

#us navy #usn #TBM #Avenger #warbirds #crew #aviation history