USS Enterprise (CV-6) The USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier. She was much smaller than its successors, weighing in at only 32,000 tons under a full load.

The USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the most decorated US Navy ship in World War II, receiving a Presidential Unit Citation, a Navy Unit Commendation, and 20 Battle Stars. Commissioned in 1938, the ...

Summary: Commissioned in May 1938, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) emerged as a pivotal American aircraft carrier during World War II, especially throughout 1942. As part of the Yorktown class, it ...

It was a successor to the heroic World War II-era aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CV-6). CVN-65 was iconic in its own right because it was America’s first nuclear-powered supercarrier.

Summary: The USS Enterprise (CV-6), also known as “The Big E” or the “Gray Ghost,” stands as the most decorated and legendary aircraft carrier of World War II. Pioneering naval aviation ...

The ship's immediate predecessor, USS Enterprise (CV 6), was a World War II carrier commissioned in 1936. CV 6 served in the historic and impactful battle of Midway in the Pacific.

Multiple sorties of Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo-bombers, Douglass SBD Dauntless dive bombers and Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters flew from USS Enterprise (CV-6).

Enterprise CVN-80 could very well replace the USS Dwight D Eisenhower as the flagship supercarrier of the mighty Carrier Strike Group 2, a role with which the latter has served since 2004.