mo4ch:>Wreck of aircraft carrier behind WW2 ‘Doolittle Raid’ found on Pacific Ocean floor (PHOTOS) | Mo4ch News

USS Hornet, the legendary aircraft carrier that fought at Midway and launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, was sunk in 1942. Now, after 77 years, her wreckage has been found three miles deep on the bottom of the South Pacific.The Hornet was last seen in October 1942, sinking after being fatally struck by Japanese torpedo and dive bombers in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Guadalcanal campaign. Most of her 2,200-strong crew managed to abandon ship, but 140 were lost.Now, thanks to the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the Hornet can be viewed again after a concentrated effort by the research vessel R/V Petrel to pinpoint exactly the location of the carrier's watery grave.Before her untimely demise, the Yorktown-class carrierhad already attained immortality in military history books as the staging platform for the Doolittle Raid. The daring April 1942 operation saw 16 US Army B-25 bombers take off from the carrier to bomb Tokyo in revenge for the Japanese attack on…