... NAS Alameda, March 20, 1942 Having departed Norfolk March 4, the Hornet went down south, crossed the unhindered Panama Canal, then slowly back to California, and finally came ashore, two weeks later, much to the Alameda Naval Air , near San Francisco.
Even before the first sighting Canal lock, the sailors of the great aircraft carrier already knew that from the Atlantic to the Pacific, they would find themselves quickly immersed in the heat of the action.
Because unlike the situation in the Atlantic, where the few (and small) U.S. aircraft carriers - as Ranger - not as it used to escort convoys and protect against possible German submarines, those operating in the Pacific - like the Enterprise - constantly engaged in battle and even now, since Pearl Harbor-battleships and the disappearance of the main if not the only weapon available yet Navy in its fight against the Japanese Empire. But if everyone knows now that the first war mission in the Hornet is now imminent, and it obviously will take place against the Japanese enemy, no one on board - including the commander of large aircraft carriers - No one knows yet how it will.
Without Wikileaks - yet to be invented - each is therefore reduced to conjecture ... and waiting to dock, which will last several days ...
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