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Scale: 1/350 Model length: 28.13" Span: 4" Code: MBACHDT
She was launched on 14 December 1940 by Newport News Shipbuilding of Newport News, Virginia (sponsored by Annie Reid Knox, wife of Secretary of the Navy Frank M. Knox), and commissioned at Norfolk on 20 October 1941, Captain Marc A. Mitscher in command.
During the uneasy period before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hornet trained out of Norfolk. Her armament was upgraded in her January 1942 yard period, deleting all .50 caliber machine guns and replacing them with 30 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons. A hint of a future mission occurred on 2 February 1942, when Hornet departed Norfolk with two Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell medium bombers on deck. Once at sea, the planes were launched to the surprise and amazement of Hornet's crew. Her men were unaware of the meaning of this experiment, as Hornet returned to Norfolk, prepared to leave for combat, and on 4 March sailed for the West Coast via the Panama Canal.
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