USS Enterprise (CV-6)

USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the seventh US Navy ship of that name. She was a Yorktown class aircraft carrier and one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to the war to survive the entire conflict (the others were Saratoga and Ranger) She was the only ship outside of the British Royal Navy to earn the highest award of the British Admiralty Pennant, and participated in nearly every major engagement of the war against Japan, including the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of Santa Cruz, various other air-sea actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as well as participating in the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo. Enterprise has the distinction of earning 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was clearly the most important and most centrally-involved of all of them as well. Some have even labelled her the most glorious and honored ship in all of United States Naval history, rivalled only perhaps by the Nineteenth Century frigate USS Constitution.

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Aircraft carrier - United States Navy - Yorktown class aircraft carrier - ''Saratoga'' - ''Ranger'' - British Royal Navy - British Admiralty Pennant - Battle of Midway - Battle of the Eastern Solomons - Battle of Santa Cruz - Battle of Guadalcanal - Battle of the Philippine Sea - Battle of Leyte Gulf - Doolittle Raid - Tokyo - USS Constitution

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