![]() ![]() Task Group 58.1 in company with Task Group 58.2 and 58.3 continued steaming towards the vicinity on 28 February 1945 from which point strikes against Okinawa were to be launched the next day. ![]() After the fourth strike was launched further offensive operations were cancelled. The first strikes were launched on 25 February 1945 but weather conditions proved an insuperable obstacle to the mission and only one strike reached the assigned target. The Task Group proceeded from here to make strikes on Tokyo for the second time. Strikes were launched against Chichi Jima on 18 February 1945 where Susaki Airfield and Omura Seaplane Base were attacked. ![]() The weather proved a serious handicap and limited the amount of damage which might have otherwise been inflicted on grounded aircraft on the numerous fields around Tokyo. The sixteenth of February was D minus 3 days of the operations against Iowo Jima and the day of our first carrier plane attack against Tokyo. The personnel of the USS Hornet (CV-12) enjoyed a period of rest and relaxation at Ulithi up to the the tenth, on which day the ship once again got underway for major action. Visit the website of the Hampton Roads Naval Museumįrom the war diary found on the website, Fold3: Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-413915).Ī reader of this post in 2018 shared a link to a website that discusses the weapon in the above photograph. Note ready-service ammunition and spent shell casings at right men passing 4-round clips to loaders at left. View looks aft on the port side, with the carrier’s port quarter 5″/38 guns just beyond the 40mm mount. However, helmetless members of the gun crew, and rolled up shirt sleeves, strongly indicate that the occasion was in warmer climes and not while in combat. The original picture caption identifies the photo as having been taken during Task Force 58’s raid on Japan, 16 February 1945. 40mm Quad Machine Gun Mount firing on board USS Hornet (CV-12), circa February 1945, probably during gunnery practice. ![]()
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