USS HORNET 53-56

Comments: FORMOSA HAINAN CHINA SEA,SOUTH CHINA SEA TAIWAN 53-56 USS HORNET CVA-12

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1956-57 cat & arresting gear crew

Comments: thanks to lt. gracey for the flight time, iItook it up for fun in wash and ak , still have 1947 aeronca 7bcm 85. lots of fun in j-3 cubs too recall the tidal wave we made contact and the frequent returns to yokosuka .had a great cruise. wonder if klibbe is still chasing missles down in cal !

Keywords: cheif cal leach, lt. gracey, lt klibbe, earl haas,rollo miller, charlie miller, john wade, arkie harris , bob cain,j. o. hamilton,

USS HORNET CLUB, INC CVA-12

Comments: The USS HORNET Club, Inc is a non-profit veterans organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of the USS HORNET (CV-8, CV-12, CVA-12, CVS-12), her ships' company, officers, aircraft, airmen, and crews. Our Club has held a reunion every year since 1949. E-mail: ushornet@sunline.net Web site: usshornet.webjump.com Sincerely, Roni Masse, Secretary/ Treasurer

Keywords: Aircraft Carrier, CVA-12, USS HORNET

Radioshack 55-57 ComCar Div

Comments: Served on the Hornet 1955-1956 attached to ComCarDiv One, RM2 in OR division. The Hornet had the best chow in the Navy. I remember hamburgers and hot dogs every night after the movies. Also remember loosing a screw and ended up in dry dock in Yokosuka for a month, that was just terrible (ya right)

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VF-72 and then VA-72 1955

Comments: Had a great time in the service. Am interested if anyone out there remembers me and if so say Hi! My comanding officer was Mr Naumann and Jack Sheehan was my unit commander. It was a great outfit. My rank at discharge was AMH2. We had the F9F Cougar Jet on the Hornet and then trained on the A4D Skyhawk when it was introduced to the fleet in 1957

Keywords: I was stationed at Quonset Point RI from 1954 through 1957 served with VA-72 on USS Hornet on the cruise to Japan with the 7th fleet in 1955

Ship's History - Korean War Service

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NOTE: THE USS HORNET (CVA-12) WAS OUT OF COMMISSION DURING THE KOREAN WAR. SHE SERVED WITH THE PEACE PATROL IN 1954.

USS HORNET (CVA-12)

(CV-12: dp. 27,000; l. 872'; b. 147' 6"; dr. 28'; s. 33 k.; cpl. 3,448; a. 12 5"; 40 40mm.; cl. Essex)

“...decommissioned .....for conversion to an attack aircraft carrier...”

The eighth Hornet (CV-12) was launched 30 August 1943 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs. Frank M. Knox, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned 29 November 1943, Captain Miles M. Browning in command.

Hornet recommissioned 20 March 1951, then sailed from San Francisco for the New York Naval Shipyard where she decommissioned 12 May 1951 for conversion to an attack aircraft carrier (CVA-12). She recommissioned 11 September 1953 and trained in the Caribbean Sea before departure from Norfolk 11 May 1954 on an 8-month global cruise.

After operations in the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, Hornet joined the mobile 7th fleet in the South China Sea where 25 July, search planes from her task group shot down two attacking Chinese Communist fighter planes.

She returned to San Francisco 12 December 1954, trained out of San Diego, then sailed 4 May 1955 to join the 7th fleet in the Far East.

From: DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN NAVAL FIGHTING SHIPS

Keywords: PEACE PATROL, 7TH FLEET

Fox Divison

Comments: USS HORNET CVA-12 FOX DIV.

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