USS Enterprise (CV-6) was an Aircraft Carrier which was known to the troops as the “Big E”. Enterprise was a Yorktown-class carrier, was launched in 1936 and together with the Saratoga and the Ranger, they were the only three American carriers commissioned before the start of the Second World War to survive the war.

The USS Enterprise participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other US ship, these actions included the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, various other air-sea engagements during the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

The Japanese announced on three separate occasions that she had been sunk, which earned her the name “The Grey Ghost”.

Enterprise earned a total of 20 battle stars, more than any other U.S. warship in World War II, and became the most decorated US ship that war.

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