... off San Francisco, April 2, 1942 Only by opening his sealed orders, shortly after departure, that the admiral Mitsch ra finally discovered the purpose of his mission - the first of war and the first of Hornet - or bomb Tokyo with the sixteen B-25B who the day before, were loaded onto the ship at the same time as the staff of the USAAF which it will also first mission war.
The case also did not come without difficulties, because if the Hornet, with its 250 meters long, is one of the largest vessels of its time, it is also a vessel where the less space is limited, and a crowded ship, which in addition to its normal crew of about 3,000 men, had to accommodate the 80 B-25 airmen but also their mechanics and dealers in some 200 additional troops, that we tried to cram as best they could. And then there are the planes themselves, too large for the elevators could not be lowered into the sheds - in any case already filled aircraft - and it was therefore necessary to install, or rather pile up at the back of the bridge, leaving the wings and fuselages overflowing everywhere.
the morning of April 2, the Hornets finally put to sea for a first appointment with the Enterprise and Admiral Halsey while in its guts, the eighty airmen have been designated to study the details of the mission that has finally been unveiled their ...
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