She joined TF 23 for intensive ASW and AA exercises 28 October and after a short operation with Enterprise (CVA(N)-65) was back in Mayport for tender availability. On 8 February 1964 she again joined the 6th Fleet and was called upon to stand guard for 3 weeks near the trouble-...
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Enterprise embarked on its 21st deployment in January 2011, during which the carrier supported operations Enduring Freedom, New Dawn and multiple anti-piracy missions. During its six-month tour of duty, Big ‘E’ made port visits to Lisbon, Portugal, Marmaris, Turkey, the Kingdom of Bahrain a...
All innovations eventually become old hat, of course, and that's as true of aircraft carriers as any other technology. Fifty years ago, theUSS Enterprisewas the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered carrier; earlier this month, it set sail on itsfinal deployment. And the Langley? Here's wha...
This photo gallery describes the history and the retirement of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise through images.
1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 Service at Deep Space 9 1.2.1 Battle of Sector 001 1.2.2 Later missions 1.3 Service during the Dominion War 2 Unique characteristics 2.1 Ablative armor 2.2 Cloaking device 3 First contacts 4 Command crew 5 Embarked craft 6 Appendices 6.1 Appearances 6.2 Backgrou...
30 Nov 87Depart for Western Pacific Deployment(SEVENTH) 16-19 DecPort visit Chinhae, South Korea 23 Dec 87Arrive Yokosuka, Japan for upkeep 1988 Jan-Feb 88Port visits to Sasebo, Japan Subic Bay, Philippines Pattya Beach, Thialand Encounterex with USS Enterprise (CVN-65) battlegroup ...
(30 March-l April), then got underway from the same base 13 April for air strikes against Hollandia and Wadke in support of the Army landings on New Guinea. CANBERRA joined with the ENTERPRISE (CV-6) task group for fighter sweeps against Truk, then bombarded Matawan, rejoining the ...
(tramways) would have met at the bow, the island being set between them on the centerline. This arrangement had been considered decades earlier at the beginning of the design of USSEnterprise, the first U.S. nuclear carrier. In this case, one “tramway” would have been for helicopters, ...
The reality is the USA knew nothing about managing a modern war and learned everything from the UK. The history of the WAAC’s makes interesting reading if you want to go there, simply because it has the US Army learning (the hard way) exactly what they had already been told. ...