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USS ENTERPRISE CV-6
THE MOST DECORATED SHIP OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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This Month at CV6.ORG... 50 Photos of the Big E Pacific Fleet Notice: 9/15/42
First-Hand Account: Bob Barnes and VB-20 Big E's Commanding Officers

"THE CARRIER THAT FOUGHT THE MOST THROUGH THE ENTIRE WAR..."
DEDICATORY PLAQUE, ENTERPRISE TOWER, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY

Enterprise entered World War II on the morning of December 7, 1941, when her
scout planes encountered the Japanese squadrons attacking Pearl Harbor. Not
until May 14, 1945, when a Kamikaze attack off Kyushu, Japan, left a gaping hole
in her flight deck, was she forced to leave the war.

Of the more than twenty major actions of the Pacific War, Enterprise engaged in
all but two. Her planes and guns downed 911 enemy planes; her bombers sank 71
ships, and damaged or destroyed 192 more. Her presence inspired both pride and
fear: pride in her still unmatched combat record, and fear in the knowledge that
Enterprise and hard fighting were never far apart.

The most decorated ship of the Second World War, Enterprise changed the very
course of a war she seemed to have been expressly created for.



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