USS Hornet (CV-8), the last of the Yorktown-class fleet carriers, served in the Pacific from March 1942 until her loss at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands on October 26, 1942. She launched the Doolittle Raiders against Tokyo in April 1942, fought at Midway in June, and spent the summer and fall operating in support of the Guadalcanal campaign. In late 1942 her air group repeatedly struck Japanese shipping and shore installations in the Solomon Islands, exacting a toll on enemy supply lines supporting Guadalcanal. This February 1943 All Hands article covered the Hornet's combat operations and the strikes her air group pressed home against Japanese forces in the South Pacific before the carrier was lost to air and surface attack. The four scanned pages are from pages 10–13 of the issue.
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