183 1940 USS Dixmude (A-609) Aircraft Transport / Escort Carrier 184 1937 USS Downes (DD-375) Multirole Destroyer Warship 185 1941 USS Drum (SS-228) Diesel-Electric Attack Submarine 186 1938 USS Enterprise (CV-6) Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier ...
Chikuma during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; photograph taken by an aircraft from USS Enterprise; note smoke coming from bridge area which sustained bomb damage Japanese heavy cruiser Tone, Japan, circa 1930s Heavy cruiser Chikuma underway, circa 1940s View from a USAAF B-17...
The Midway-class aircraft carrier acted as one of the longest-serving aircraft carrier designs in U.S. naval history. The USS Midway was first commissioned in late 1945 and was not decommissioned until 1992, serving its final tour of duty in Desert Storm. Few ships saw as much change in ...
USS Drum sank Japanese seaplane carrier Mizuho 90 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan at 0416 hours; 101 were killed, 472 survived. [Drum | CPC] USS Trout sank Japanese freighter Uzan Maru 134 miles southwest of Tokyo, Japan. [Trout | CPC] The first group of 372 Japanese-American internees, ...
Sixteen Mitchells with spare crews flew cross-country, receiving modifications for the mission. Then they alit at Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda and were loaded aboard USSHornet(CV-8), America’s newest carrier. North of MidwayHornet’s unit rendezvoused with her sisterEnterprise. Only then ...
USS Wasp (CV-7) was an aircraft carrier used by the United States Navy, commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship to be named Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed in the United St
The USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was a Lexington class aircraft carrier that was fielded by the United States Navy. It was the lead ship for the Lexington class, however her sister ship, the USS Saratoga, was commissioned a month earlier.
aircraft swarmed the sixty-four thousand-tonMusashifor more than five hours, hammering her with seventeen bombs and nineteen torpedoes, heavily represented byEnterpriseandFranklin’s air groups. Ten aircraft fell to Japanese AA, but it was the first time carrier planes sank a battleship underway,...
Torpedo Squadron 6 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of USS Enterprise in flight in foreground, with an additional nine TBD-1 aircraft in background, 1938Carrier Enterprise's Torpedo Squadron 6 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft flying in formation, 1939Carrier Enterprise's Torpedo Squadron 6 TBD-1 Devastator aircr...