纪录片《航空母舰作战:企业号 Carrier at War: The USS Enterprise》 Going from 0 to 150 mph in three seconds, withstanding three Gs of force, and taking off from what's often called "the most danger...
On 30 Oct 1942, Enterprise made port call at Nouméa, New Caledonia for repairs. On 11 Nov, she sailed prematurely for the Solomon Islands again with repair crew still on board due to war demands. She arrived at the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, in which battle her aircraft helped ...
9 Oct 1944 USS Randolph was commissioned into service with Captain Felix Locke Baker in command. 11 Mar 1945 In Operation Tan No. 2, Japanese Navy aircraft conducted a large-scale special attack operation on American warships at Ulithi atoll, Caroline Islands. Closer to the home islands, a P1...
A carrier strike group (CSG) is a type of carrier battle group of the United States Navy.[1] It is an operational formation composed of roughly 7,500 personnel, usually an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates,[2] and a carr...
At 0610 hours on the next day, 20 Jun, her group was attacked by TBF Avenger torpedo bombers from the carrier USS Enterprise, damaging her from near misses. Deprived of most of her aircraft after the battle, she returned to Japan for patrol and training missions. On 25 Oct 1944, she ...
the Enterprise Air Group, assigned to USS Enterprise(CV-6), were all numbered "6": Fighting Squadron (VF) 6, Bombing Squadron (VB) 6, etc.[1] From 1942, numerical designation of air groups began, the first being Carrier Air Group 9 (CVG-9), established on 1 March 1942.[2] For ...
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Historical//Getty Images A squadron of Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers fly in formation over the USS Enterprise, 1941. The Takeaway The filming of the Akagi closes the book on one of the most storied aircraft carriers of all time. The Imperial Japanese Navy never recovered from i...
[Photo] A PBY-5 Catalina taxiing across Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, in Feb 1942. Photo taken from the carrier USS Enterprise. | World War II Database
In Dec 1944, Essex's aircraft supported the Lingayen Gulf landing operations both directly at Luzon and indirectly by striking Taiwan, Sakishima, and Okinawa, which were among the islands she would continue to attack until Feb 1945. During the final few months of the war she launched air ...