USS Enterprise CV-6

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Aerial bow-on view of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier

Aerial view of Enterprise at sea in 1945

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

aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 May 1942

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 Passing Downtown New York City on Hudson River

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 Saipan 1944

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 bow view

Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise photographed from Douglas SBD after take off 1944

Aircraft carriers USS Lexington CV-16 and USS Enterprise CV-6 1944

An overhead aerial view of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise

Anti Aircraft .50 Cal AA battery on Enterprise 1942

Damaged flight deck of Enterprise

Enterprise damaged in the Battle of Solomon Islands

Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz 26 October 1942

Enterprise narrow miss by Japanese kamikaze suicide plane 1945

Flight deck of the USS Enterprise

Gunnery practice on the 20 mm guns on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise

Japanese bomb explodes near carrier USS Enterprise during Battle of Santa Cruz

Japanese bomb explodes near carrier during Battle of Santa Cruz

Japanese Bomb Explodes on Deck of USS Enterprise CV-6 August 24 1942

Japanese Bomber Attempts Suicide Crash

Quadruple-mount 1.1-inch (28 mm) anti-aircraft cannon aboard carrier

Sailors Sunbathing on Flight Deck of USS USS Enterprise CV-6 1945. Hellcats on the flight deck.

SBD-3 falls from deck of USS Enterprise Battle of Santa Cruz

Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 in Panama Canal

Stern view of the Aircraft Carrier - Panama Canal 1939

Superstructure of USS Enterprise

TBD on the flight deck of USS Enterprise Midway 1942

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USS Enterprise July 1942

USS Enterprise 19 October 1943

USS Enterprise 1942

USS Enterprise 1943

USS Enterprise 1944

USS Enterprise 1945

USS Enterprise after WW2

USS Enterprise at sea in 1945

USS Enterprise bow

USS Enterprise Bunker Hill Ulithi

USS Enterprise CV-6

USS Enterprise CV-6 1938

USS Enterprise CV-6 Landing Signal Officer March 1945

USS Enterprise CV-6 steaming with USS Lexington CV-16 in the Central Pacific in June 1944

USS Enterprise CV-6 steaming with Lexington CV-16 (background) in the Central Pacific in June 1944

USS Enterprise damaged in the Battle of Solomon Islands

USS Enterprise during an attack by Japanese aircraft at the Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 October 1942

USS Enterprise during extensive refit in 1943

USS Enterprise hit by bomb, Battle of the Eastern Solomons

USS Enterprise hit by Japanese Kamikaze off Okinawa, 1945

USS Enterprise CV-6 hit by Kamikaze piloted by Lt Shunsuke Tomiyasu off Okinawa, 14 May 1945

USS Enterprise hit by Kamikaze piloted by Lt Shunsuke Tomiyasu off Okinawa - 14 May 1945

USS Enterprise in 1939

USS Enterprise in San Diego

USS Enterprise March 1942

USS Enterprise Newport News Shipbuilding

USS Enterprise New Port News 1937

USS Enterprise New York City Harbor 1945

USS Enterprise Norfolk 1938

USS Enterprise Pearl Harbor 10 September 1942

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USS Enterprise PH

USS Enterprise steams in the waters off Hawaii 2 August 1944

USS Enterprise stern view

USS Enterprise takes a Kamikaze hit Okinawa 14 May 1945

USS South Dakota and Enterprise during Battle of Santa Cruz

Warships escorting Hornet on the mission to launch 16 Army B-25 Mitchells in the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo

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