Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945

CV-6 USS Enterprise

• Yorktown class Fleet Carrier:
• Displacement: 19,800 tons
• Length: 827'4"
• Beam: 114'
• Draft: 28'6"
• Speed: 34 knots
• Armament: 8 5"/38 DP, 8x2 40mm, 6x4 40mm, 50 20mm, 85 planes (37 F6F(N), 18 TBM(n)
• Complement: 2,919
• Geared turbine engines, 4 screws, 120,000 shaft hp.
• Built at Newport News and commissioned 12 May 1938.

From her association with the escort carriers at Iwo Jima, Enterprise earned the nicknames "Enterprise Bay" and "Queen of the Jeeps". (Also known as the "Big E".)

Additional Links:

• "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" -- USS Enterprise
• Action Report: Pearl Harbor attack; Commander Air Group
• Action Report: Pearl Harbor attack; Commander Scouting Squadron Six.
• Action Report: Halsey-Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, 18 April 1942
  (See also USAAF Reports and various accounts)
• Action Report: Battle of Midway
• USS Enterprise Home Page
• USS Enterprise--Heroes. History. Honor
• USS Enterprise (CV-6); The Most Decorated Ship of World War II, Steve Ewing (Pictorial Histories)

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• For crew lists, and reunions see the Veterans Info Page.
• For ship's logs and personnel records, see the Reference Page.

Hit by bomb during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24Aug42

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