Starting at 11 a.m. March 30, USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum officials invite the public to join them in honoring U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War. Alameda briefs: March 5 school tax Measure E ...

Launched in 1943, the USS Hornet (CV-12) aircraft carrier participated in some of the most significant campaigns of the Pacific — the Doolittle raids over Tokyo, the Battle of Midway, Iwo Jima ...

About the USS Hornet: The USS Hornet is a retired aircraft carrier that served in World War II and the Vietnam War and retrieved Apollo 11 crew members from the Pacific Ocean after they returned ...

HISTORIC MOMENT: The USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty in Vietnam when it was tasked with the recovery of the Apollo 11 astronauts after the moon landing.

This Vietnam-era S-2 Tracker aircraft has joined the Hornet’s sizable collection. It’s been restored but painted to replicate another S-2 that took off in 1966 from the Hornet, disappeared and ...

On July 24, 1969, Dick Powers was a 23-year-old Navy lieutenant on the Apollo 11 Recovery ship USS Hornet. Picked by the carrier’s captain to serve as the aide to President Nixon, Powers ...

On July 3, the USS Hornet welcomed 76 newly minted Americans in a naturalization ceremony hosted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS holds naturalization ceremonies every ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The crew of the USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty destroying mines in Vietnam and when it got the call in early June of 1969. It was a totally different assignment ...

HISTORIC MOMENT: The USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty in Vietnam when it was tasked with the recovery of the Apollo 11 astronauts after the moon landing.

The USS Hornet had just finished a tour of duty in Vietnam when it was tasked with the recovery of the Apollo 11 astronauts after the moon landing.