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sdfernando

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6. The last aircraft carrier named Enterprise didnt see WW II

Reply to malthaussen (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 22, 2014, 01:02 PM

Aug 2014

The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) wasn't even commissioned until 1958. It saw service in Vietnam, not WW II.

The USS Enterprise (CN-6) that served in WW II was decommissioned in 1947 and scrapped in 1958 after ten years of failed attempts to raise funds to turn it into a memorial/museum ship.

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Hey, they scrapped the Big E, didn't they? malthaussen Aug 2014 #1

Agreed. The wagons get all the glory Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #3

I tip one to your father's memory. malthaussen Aug 2014 #4

... Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #5

The last aircraft carrier named Enterprise didnt see WW II sdfernando Aug 2014 #6

CV-6 USS Enterprise was the storied Hornet-Class aircraft carrier of WW2 Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 #9

Which Enterprise was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier? Brother Buzz Aug 2014 #15

CV-6 was a Yorktown class carrier. malthaussen Aug 2014 #17

Sorry. My bad - CV-6 was a Yorktown class carrier - there was no Hornet class... Cooley Hurd Aug 2014 #18

Based in Mayport, Jacksonville, FL. Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #2

The ship I was on is still in service....in the Spanish Navy Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #7

... Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #8

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I was thinking Lake Lawtonka Oklahoma Glassunion Aug 2014 #16