Name/Title
Postcard of pre-1970 CVA-12, USS Hornet, c. 1996Entry/Object ID
2024.6.3Description
Acc. No. 24.6.3
Subject Category: Naval Air Station, Alameda
Date or Period: c. 1996
Object: postcard
Description: a postcard, uncirculated, executed in blue tones, of a black-and-white photo featuring an aircraft carrier identified with the letters 12, at sea with a number of airplanes on board. Verso has publisher as Excel Graphics - Alameda CA.
Size: L 6" x W 4"
History of Object:
CVA-12, U.S.S. Hornet, at sea, pre-1970. The Hornet is an Essex-class aircraft carrier, and was at times based at the Naval Air Station (NAS), Alameda. After seeing service on and off since WWII, including being the retrieval vessel for the Apollo-11 and 12 missions, the Hornet was decommissioned in 1970. Eventually she was given historical landmark status, and after closure of 'the Base' opened as a museum in Alameda in 1998.
Part of a series of nostalgically blue-tinted postcards published by Excel Graphics in anticipation of or on commission for the closure of NAS in 1997.
Acquired from: Charles Kahler
Donated: 12/9/2023; Catalog Date: 1/26/2024
