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    USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name...
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  • section patrol craft USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier (1938–1947), the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's...
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  • named Enterprise with a ninth currently under construction: USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115) – U.S. Navy training facility and simulator (2005–2011) USS Enterprise...
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    (BuAer) purchased 129 examples, and began to equip the carriers USS Saratoga, Enterprise, Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Yorktown and Ranger starting in 1937...
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  • The Enterprise Air Group was established on 1 July 1938, encompassing all squadrons embarked in USS Enterprise (CV-6). The group was divided into four...
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    States Navy during World War II. Stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, Best led his dive bomber squadron at the 1942 Battle of Midway, sinking...
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    building two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers: USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), and USS Enterprise (CVN-80). In 2013, Newport News Shipbuilding began...
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    Fleet Carriers". pwencycl.kgbudge.com. Retrieved 27 August 2018. "USS Enterprise (CV-6)". National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Friedman...
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    admiral in 1938. At the start of the War in the Pacific (1941–1945), Halsey commanded the task force centered on the carrier USS Enterprise in a series...
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    the Attack on Pearl Harbor, being an escort for the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise on her way to Midway Atoll at the time. She also served off Hawaii during...
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    class USS Ranger Yorktown class USS Enterprise Essex class (‡ extended bow) USS Essex USS Franklin USS Ticonderoga ‡ USS Randolph ‡ USS Bunker Hill USS Wasp...
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  • available to inflict damage upon the enemy. For example, would designing the USS Yorktown so that it was more likely to survive the punishment it took at...
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    Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2015. "USS Enterprise: Past Present And Future". The Official US Navy Blog. US Navy. Archived...
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    surface fleet. From June 1938 to April 1940, Ensign Kleiss served on board three ships: USS Vincennes (CA-44), USS Goff (DD-247), and USS Yarnall (DD-143). After...
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    Hiryū when she was scuttled after being crippled by aircraft from USS Enterprise and USS Yorktown. Yamaguchi was born in Koishikawa Tokyo, and was the third...
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    With the decommissioning of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) on 1 December 2012, Carrier Air Wing One was reassigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), which...
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    aerial warfare tactics as a Navy captain on the Admiral's staff aboard USS Enterprise and at Nouméa during World War II. His citation for the Distinguished...
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    USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in...
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    seaplane tender USS Ranger (CV-4) USS Enterprise (CV-6) USS Wasp (CV-7) USS Texas (BB-35) USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) USS West Virginia (BB-48) USS Cincinnati (CL-6)...
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    at Midway which otherwise would have been directed at the carriers USS Enterprise and Hornet. On 4 June, during the battle, Japanese aircraft from the...
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    USS Nashville (CL-43) was a Brooklyn-class cruiser. She was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. She...
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    USS Phoenix (CL-46), was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn-class cruiser family. She was the third Phoenix of the United States Navy. After World War II...
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    on 1 February by Vice Admiral William Halsey, Jr's aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, Chikuma departed Truk with the Carrier Striking Force in an unsuccessful...
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    and achieved international fame as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991). Kelley was...
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    the Nimitz-class, USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), USS Abraham Lincoln...
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    USS Shaw (DD-373) was a Mahan-class destroyer and the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain John Shaw, a naval officer. Commissioned...
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    the heavy cruiser USS Northampton. His division was an element of the task force built around the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and commanded by Vice...
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    to the Cavite Navy Yard, in the Philippines, for fitting to the cruiser USS Houston of the Asiatic Fleet. Four were mounted on Houston and the fifth...
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    USS Grayson (DD-435), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson, who served...
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    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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