This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. The eighth USS Hornet, CV12 Essex Class Aircraft Carrier, retired, holds seven battle stars, a presidential citation [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. One of the Hornet’s greatest claims to fame is the flawless recovery of U.S. astronauts from the [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. There she found Odysseus among the slaughtered dead men, spattered over with gore and battle filth, like [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. The sheer size of the Hornet illustrates the size of her volunteers’ jobs. With thousands of square [...]
This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. Ron Bubeck worked on the flight deck of the Hornet at the start of the Cold War [...]
A most interesting day was had by former roomates Bill Cracraft and Jay Richardson when they took their German wives on a tour of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet, now a museum moored at the old Alameda Naval Base. Richardson and Cracraft, avid military historians, were [...]