the Battle of the Philippine Sea, andthe Battle of Leyte Gulf. Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also
Enterprise was deemed surplus for the post-war needs of America's navy. She entered the New York Naval Shipyard on 18 January 1946 for deactivation and was decommissioned on 17 February 1947. In 1946, she had been scheduled to be handed over to the state of New York as a...
This photo gallery describes the history and the retirement of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise through images.
全11集,全长9小时 For nearly a decade, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Enterprise held a pivotal place on the turbulent seas of war, engaging in some of the fiercest multifront battles ever witnessed in modern combat. #微博纪录片联盟#,#微博开学季#, #英语# ...
[Photo] Crews aboard USS Enterprise controlling fires from a Japanese bomb that blew the forward elevator completely out of the ship, off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945. | World War II Database
USSAlabama(BB-60) was aSouth Dakota-classbattleship that was commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1942. The last ship of its class,Alabamainitially served in the Atlantic Theater ofWorld War II, before receiving orders to shift to the Pacific in 1943. Largely serving as protection for Americ...
The 43-second-long video begins with the 85-foot-long (26 meters) oceangoing Enterprise from the 1700s, then progresses to the 825-foot-long (251 m) USS Enterprise aircraft carrier that (among other adventures) served in World War II after receiving an alert at sea that the Japanese had...
The USSHornetin World War II was an aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers were the most important ships in the navies in WWII and continue to be so today. Carriers are fast ships that serve as platforms to launch and recover aircraft. As such, a carrier task force (an aircraft carrier and ...
but was added after completion. Of the eight pre-war U.S. aircraft carriers CV-1 through CV-8, Ranger was one of only three to survive the entirety of World War II, the others being Enterprise and Saratoga. Unlike the others, however, she was initially deemed too slow for use with th...
With the entry of the United States into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. Navy suddenly felt an enormous demand for warships. Especially the destroyer fleet, considering its modern and well-armed Japanese counterpa