It's no wonder she was scrapped .. the apparent rust is evident of where they were standing .. I would never have stood there known it was in that condition , Cool video
Crash landing of F6F-3, Number 30 of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2), USS Enterprise, into the carrier’s port side 20mm gun gallery, 10 November 1943 whilst en route to attack Makin Island. Lieutenant Walter L. Chewning, Jr., USNR, the Catapult Officer, is climbing up the plane’s side to assist the...
five aircraft carriers, and four amphibious assault ships, are crammed together here at Norfolk among smaller ships and nuclear submarines.
December 2012
Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator" torpedo plane
Drops a Mark XIII torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, 20 October 1941.
This plane is aircraft number 6-T-4 of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), based on USS Enterprise (CV-6).
All three of the plane's crewmen are visible in its cockpit...
Wake Island Raid, 24 February 1942
A Douglas TBD-1 torpedo plane from USS Enterprise (CV-6) flies over Wake during the raid. Note fires burning in the lower center.
View looks about WNW, with Wilkes Island in the center and the western end of Wake Island in bottom center. Peale Island is at...
Photographed from USS Enterprise (CV-6) in August 1942, during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
USS Saratoga (CV-3) is in the center, with a Farragut-class destroyer to the left and a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser to the right.
Just after being presented with the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, on board USS Enterprise at Pearl Harbor, 27 May 1942.
The medal was awarded for heroism on board USS West Virginia during the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
Miller was the first African American to recieve the...
The aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65 ), the world`s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, steams alongside the smaller French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle (R 91), in the Mediterranean Sea.
Location: USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), MEDITERRANEAN SEA (MED)
Date Shot: 16 MAY 2001Camera...
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