USS Hornet CV-12 (my Dad's ship)
USS Hornet CV -12, Alameda CA
Builders Plaque
Ships Bell CV-12
Bow on
Coming Home, Golden Gate 1945
Dad in San Francisco @ 1945
Forward Flight Deck
Return to the US under Golden Gate @1945
CV-12 Island
Hornet @ 1946, back home
Armored Conning tower
Pilot House CV-12 (looking forward)
Pilot House (looking aft)
Air OPS
CIC
TF 58.1 March 24,1945 on to Okinawa
Ulithi (taken by my Dad)
Hornet March 27, 1945
CAP Coordinator
Flag office (Jocko Clark’s office WWII)
Fathometer UQH
Degaussing Control
Captains Sea Cabin
CV-12
Air Ops (Captains chair)
CV-12 Bridge
January 1944
Starboard side bridge wing
Hornet’s War Record, WWII led all ships with Air Kills
Hornet August 1944
1946
March 18, 1945 Kamikaze
Hornet 1944 (taken by my Dad)
Hornet Island
Hornet in port @ 1945
Flight bridge
Flag Bridge
Hornet @ 1946
Catapult Equipment room
Aft flight deck
Dad onboard USS Bellau Wood @1946 enroute NY via Panama canal
Arresting gear CV – 12
Arresting gear operations room (my Dad’s work space)
My Dad’s berthing space CV-12
Dad 1945
Catapult Launch Control
Catapult Control
Catapult Control room
Catapult Gear
Dad in 40mm gun hub @1946
Aboard Hornet 1945
Bakery CV-12
Bakery
Bakery Hornet
Chow line CV-12
Messdecks
Galley CV-12
Galley
CPO mess
Passageway
Marines CV-12
Crews Quarters
Ready Room
Forward Elevator
Hanger Bay
Plane tow
Hanger deck
F4F wing
Mechanical Foam Nozzle on hanger deck
MOH winner flew off USS Lexington CV-2
Legendary Jimmy Flatley
Bomb Shop
MK-13 Aerial Torpedoes
Torpedo shop
Torpedo Magazine
Hornet @ 1946
UN REP WWII (taken by my father)
Boiler, one of 8
Boiler (2)
LP Turbine
Boiler Room
Engine room
ERI – Engines Revolutions Indicator
Fireroom CV-12
Fireroom
Escape Trunk CV-12 Boiler room
Throttle Controls
LP Steam Turbines
Main Engine Control
Main engine (one of four)
Propeller shaft
Evaporator pump
Switchboards and Generator
Passageway CV-12
Post office
Sickbay
Pharmacy
Surgery
Surgery CV-12
Hornet Patch
Switchboard
SONAR aboard CV-12
Apollo 11 Recovery
Apollo
Apollo 11 Quarentine
Stern plate CV-12
Service plaque
Port side lookng aft (taken by my dad)
F-18 aboard Yorktown
Stern plate CV-10
Yorktown, San Francisco @ 1946
Ships bell CV-10
Yorktown CV-10 – WWII record
Yorktown island
Ship’s Bell CV-13
Stern Plate CV-6
CV-3 USS Saratoga @ 1946, San Francisco
Ex USS Cabot (taken by me in 1980, Rota Spain)
Uncle Alex (Dad’s brother served on a PT boat in south pacific)
Aviation Boatswains Mate 3rd Bernard Block
A chip off the older Block
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