# Life and Death of USS Hornet

One of the U.S. Navy's industrial incentive films, the Life and Death of the USS Hornet traces the valiant career of CV-8. Footage includes the launching of the Doolittle Raider B-25s on their mission to strike Tokyo in 1942, including White House reaction by President Roosevelt that the planes came from "Shangri-La." Also on this film, is footage of the ill-fated Torpedo 8 Squadron which was sacrificed at the Battle of Midway. The carrier USS Hornet was sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz, and the film ends with the launch of a "new" Hornet CV-12.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1943
- Runtime: 16 min
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising, Propaganda
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LifeAndDeathOfUssHornet)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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