Enterprise put into Pearl Harbor for fuel and supplies in December and sailed early the next morning to patrol against possible additional attacks on the Hawaiian Islands. The carrier, meanwhile, assembled her remaining aircraft in a fruitless search for the Japanese striking force. Enterprise had just completed one such mission, delivering Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 211 to Wake Island on 2 December 1941, and was en route to Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.Įnterprise scout bombers arrived over Pearl Harbor during the attack and, though surprised, immediately went into action in defense of the naval base, and 6 of them were shot down by the Japanese. Based first on San Diego and then on Pearl Harbor, the carrier trained herself and her aircraft squadrons for any eventuality, and carried aircraft among the island bases of the Pacific. After her return she operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean until April of 1939 when she was ordered to duty in the Pacific.
in command.Įnterprise sailed south on a shakedown cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro. Swanson, and commissioned with Captain Newton H. The USS Enterprise was launched 3 October 1936 at Newport News Shipbuilding, sponsored by Lulie Swanson, wife of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. warship in World War II, being the only ship outside of the British Royal Navy to earn the highest award of the British Admiralty Pennant, and took part in the Battle of Midway, Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as well as participating in the " Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo. One of only three American aircraft carriers commissioned prior to the war to survive the entire conflict (the others were Saratoga and Ranger) Enterprise has the distinction of earning 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the seventh US Navy ship of that name. Despite efforts to turn her into a museum ship, she was sold for scrapping in July 1958. Decommissioned in February 1947, Enterprise was redesignated (CVA-6) in October 1952 and then to (CVS-6) in August 1953. Following Japan's surrender, she helped transport U.S. Due to damage received by two kamikaze attacks in April and May, she returned to the United States with the distinction of being the most decorated U.S. In February 1945, Enterprise took part in the Iwo Jima invasion, then raids on the Japanese home islands and the Okinawa campaign in April. In the summer of 1944, she participated in the Marianas operation and the Battle of the Philippine Sea, followed with the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October. In late 1943 and early 1944, Enterprise took part in the Gilberts and Marshall invasions and air attacks on the Japanese in the Central and Southern Pacific. Despite being damaged in both battles, she launched aircraft to assist the ships involved in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, she covered the landings and participated in the battles of Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz Islands. In April, Enterprise covered the Dootlittle Raid on Japan and participated in the Battle of Midway that June, where her planes helped sink three Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser. Navy warship to sink a Japanese warship, submarine I-70, and later that month participated in the Wake Island expedition. Three days after, she became the first U.S. Relocating to the Pacific, she was at sea during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Yorktown class aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CV-6) was commissioned at Newport News, Virginia, on May 12, 1938.
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