In an English spoken Japanese radio broadcast sent out from Tokyo was claimed that in the morning of 15 May the American aircraft carriers USS Hornet (1) and Enterprise (2) escorted by some cruisers and destroyers were seen on a location of 500 miles east of the Solomon Islands. Both carriers were sent as an answer on the Japanese claims that they sunk the USS Saratoga (3) and Yorktown.(4)
Notes
1. CV-8. Of the Yorktown-class carriers, preceded by USS Ranger, succeeded by USS Wasp and Essex-class, building ordered on 30 March 1939, laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding Company on 25 September 1939, launched on 14 December 1940, commissioned on 20 October 1941 and sunk in the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 27 October 1942. Her wreck was in end January 2019 discovered by the Solomon Islands.
2. CV-6. Of the Yorktown-class carriers, preceded by USS Ranger, succeeded by USS Wasp and Essex-class, building ordered in 1933, laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding Company on 16 July 1934, launched on 3 October 1936, commissioned on 12 May 1938, decommissioned on 17 February 1947 and broken up between 1958-1960.
3. CC-3, later CV-3. Of the Lexington-class carriers, building ordered as battle cruiser in 1917, laid down by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey on 25 September 1920, conversion into carrier ordered in 1922, reclassified as carrier on 1 July 1922, launched on 7 April 1925, commissioned on 16 November 1927, sunk in nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946 and stricken on 15 August 1946.
4. CV-5. Of the Yorktown-class carriers, preceded by USS Ranger, succeeded by USS Wasp and Essex-class, building ordered on 3 August 1933, laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding Company on 21 May 1934, launched on 4 April 1936, commissioned on 30 September 1937, torpedoed and sunk on 7 June 1942. Wreck found back on 19 May 1998.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 158 dated 17 May 1942
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