USS Enterprise at sea in 1945
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USS Enterprise PH
Superstructure of USS Enterprise
USS Enterprise March 1942
USS Enterprise CV-6
USS Enterprise bow
USS Enterprise stern view
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USS Enterprise Pearl Harbor 10 September 1942
USS Enterprise after WW2
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USS Enterprise Norfolk 1938
USS Enterprise New Port News 1937
USS Enterprise hit by bomb, Battle of the Eastern Solomons
USS Enterprise July 1942
Enterprise damaged in the Battle of Solomon Islands
USS Enterprise damaged in the Battle of Solomon Islands
USS Enterprise Bunker Hill Ulithi
USS Enterprise 1944
USS Enterprise 1943
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Damaged flight deck of Enterprise
USS Enterprise 1942
USS Enterprise during extensive refit in 1943
USS Enterprise 19 October 1943
USS Enterprise 1945
Aerial view of Enterprise at sea in 1945
USS Enterprise 1945
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Japanese Bomber Attempts Suicide Crash
Warships escorting Hornet on the mission to launch 16 Army B-25 Mitchells in the “Doolittle Raid” on Tokyo
Quadruple-mount 1.1-inch (28 mm) anti-aircraft cannon aboard carrier
Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz 26 October 1942
USS Enterprise New York City Harbor 1945
USS Enterprise in San Diego
Flight deck of the USS Enterprise
Aerial bow-on view of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier
Enterprise narrow miss by Japanese kamikaze suicide plane 1945
USS Enterprise in 1939
USS Enterprise takes a Kamikaze hit Okinawa 14 May 1945
An overhead aerial view of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
USS Enterprise stern view
Anti Aircraft .50 Cal AA battery on Enterprise 1942
Japanese bomb explodes near carrier during Battle of Santa Cruz
USS South Dakota and Enterprise during Battle of Santa Cruz
SBD-3 falls from deck of USS Enterprise Battle of Santa Cruz
USS Enterprise hit by Japanese Kamikaze off Okinawa, 1945
USS Enterprise hit by Kamikaze piloted by Lt Shunsuke Tomiyasu off Okinawa – 14 May 1945
Stern view of the Aircraft Carrier – Panama Canal 1939
USS Enterprise during an attack by Japanese aircraft at the Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 October 1942
USS Enterprise CV-6 1938
USS Enterprise steams in the waters off Hawaii 2 August 1944
USS Enterprise CV-6 steaming with Lexington CV-16 (background) in the Central Pacific in June 1944
Japanese Bomb Explodes on Deck of USS Enterprise CV-6 August 24 1942
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise photographed from Douglas SBD after take off 1944
Aircraft carriers USS Lexington CV-16 and USS Enterprise CV-6 1944
Sailors Sunbathing on Flight Deck of USS USS Enterprise CV-6 1945. Hellcats on the flight deck.
TBD on the flight deck of USS Enterprise Midway 1942
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 Passing Downtown New York City on Hudson River
Gunnery practice on the 20 mm guns on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 Hit by Japanese Kamikaze off Okinawa May 14, 1945
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 June 1941 color photo
USS Enterprise CV-6 Landing Signal Officer March 1945
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 May 1942
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 Saipan 1944
USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the seventh US Navy ship of that name. She was a Yorktown class aircraft carrier and one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to the war to survive the entire conflict (the others were Saratoga and Ranger) She was the only ship outside of the British Royal Navy to earn the highest award of the British Admiralty Pennant, and participated in nearly every major engagement of the war against Japan, including the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, various other air-sea actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as well as participating in the “Doolittle Raid” on Tokyo. Enterprise has the distinction of earning 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was clearly the most important and most centrally-involved of all of them as well. Some have even labelled her the most glorious and honored ship in all of United States Naval history, rivalled only perhaps by the Nineteenth Century frigate USS Constitution.
Laid down: 16 July 1934
Launched: 3 October 1936
Commissioned: 12 May 1938
Fate: sold for scrap, 1 July 1958