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Bookmark or Share- Enterprise (CV-6) - NHHCThe seventh Enterprise (CV-6) was laid down July 16, 1934; launched Oct. 3, 1936; and commissioned May 12, 1938, with Captain Newton H. White in command. The ship’s sponsor was Lulie H. Swanson, wife of former Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson. Enterprise was the most decorated warship of World War II earning 20 Battle Stars—three ...
- USS Enterprise (CVN-65) - NHHCUSS Enterprise (CVN-65, later CVAN-65 and CVN-65), 1961-2017 Commissioned at Newport News, Virginia, on November 25, 1961, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier. Ordered to assist the Project Mercury Program in February 1962, she tracked and measured the flight of the first American orbital spaceflight, Friendship 7. During the Cuban Missile ...
- USS Enterprise (CV-6) - NHHCThe Yorktown class aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CV-6) was commissioned at Newport News, Virginia, on May 12, 1938. Relocating to the Pacific, she was at sea during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Three days after, she became the first U.S. Navy warship to sink a Japanese warship, submarine I-70, and later that month participated in the Wake Island expedition. In ...
- US Navy in Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2002 - NHHCUSS Enterprise CV6 War History 1941 - 1945; USS Franklin CV-13 War Damage Report No. 56; USS Helena CL50 War Damage Report No. 43 ; USS Honolulu CL48 War Damge Report No. 1; USS Houston CL81 War Damage Report No. 53; USS Independence CVL22 & USS Denver CL58 War Damage Report No. 52 [USS] Joseph Hewes APA22 War Damage Report No. 32
- Enterprise (CVN-65) - NHHCKN-9027. Task group of nuclear-powered surface ships operating in formation in the Mediterranean Sea, 18 June 1964. The ships are the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVAN-65), left; the guided-missile cruiser Long Beach (CGN-9), center; and the guided-missile frigate Bainbridge (DLGN-25), right. Official U.S. Navy photograph.
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