USS CV-8 Hornet: USS Hornet (CV-8) was a Yorktown class aircraft carrier. She was launched on December 14, 1940 and commissioned on October 20, 1941 at Norfolk Naval Station. On December 7, 1941, she began her shakedown cruise off Norfolk with Air Group Eight. In March 1942, Hornet was immediately employed on the Doolittle raid. On April 18, she launched 16 Army B-25 bombers to attack Japan, causing relatively little damage but enormous strategic implications. On April 30, she was sent to the South Pacific to aid USS Lexington and USS Yorktown in the Battle of Coral Sea, but the battle was over by the time Hornet arrived. From June 4 to 6, during the Battle of Midway, her planes helped sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, damaged a destroyer, and left the cruiser Mogami heavily wounded. On October 24, 1942, Hornet joined Enterprise and headed east of the Santa Cruz Islands to intercept a Japanese strike force consisting of four carriers, four battleships, ten cruisers, thirty destroyers, and twelve submarines. On October 26, during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, planes from Hornet severely damaged the carrier Shokaku and the cruiser Chikuma. However, in return, Hornet received hits from two kamikazes, seven bombs and two torpedoes. The next morning, she sank to 16,000 feet under the water off the Santa Cruz Islands. This model has measurements of: Span: 4" Len: 28 1/8" and Scale: 1/350