Hornet

At the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum, this Vietnam-era S-2 Tracker aircraft has joined the Hornet's sizable collection. It's been restored but painted to ...

Other veterans also like to visit the ship and talk about the planes they flew, especially with kids. So he pulled out the .38 and shot the guy holding the AK-47, and the other guy tried to shoot Willie with the .45 they had taken from him. So when the guy pulled the trigger the gun didn’t fire, so he figured the gun wasn’t working and jumped overboard. The Hornet is open to visitors Saturdays through Mondays from 10 a.m. Willie noticed that the soldiers ducked each time his wingman buzzed the boat, and they didn’t know that he also had a .38 revolver that his wife had given him. 22, 1966, from the Hornet but disappeared from the ship’s radar screen and never returned. “Her job was to protect the newer, larger carriers from submarines.” The names of the crew — William S. She was the ship that fished the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 astronauts out of the ocean after their historic first flights to the Moon. “There were bombs, torpedoes and depth charges, all nuclear, but they were never used,” says Russell Moore, the Hornet’s marketing and outreach manager. But the rest of the crew never knew they were carrying nukes.” Recently I went to see her for the first time since the pandemic started.