USS Enterprise (CV-6)

[GrummanIronWorksFan]

You really tried to do a good job memorializing the Big E with the pictures and notes. I applaud your efforts since she was a great ship worthy of all our recognition. I also agree whole heartedly that it was a disgrace that she was scrapped as if she was just another piece of metal. No disrespect intended, the music takes a great deal away from it. By the way I am an avid AC/DC fan from their beginning, so it’s not about not liking rock. Thanks for keeping the ENTERPRISE, CV 6 alive!!

[kaang69]

In my opinion, it was a crime to scrap this ship. She should have been a museum ship. Maybe if the surrender had of taken place on her instead of the Missouri, she would still be around. It would have been fitting since she was one of the main targets of the Japanese at Pearl Harbour & she served the entire war in the pacific

A sad end to a gallant ship & thoe that served upon her

I memory of all those who served & sacrificed on USS Enetrprise CV-6, I Salute you & we will all remember you

[Jdaki1]

@kaang69 I totally agree with you. I believe that Adm. Halsey led an effort to preserve her, but they were unable to raise enough funds. I also think that the Big E has more accomplishments then any other ship preserved and that if any ship was to be saved, it should have been her.

[mbm41796]

SHE WON THE WAR FOR US HOW COULD YOU AMERICANS JUST SCRAP IT LIKE THAT

[mbm41796]

Its Japan vs 1 ship

[Fr1tz3l]

Enterprise V. Japan

[RJF1966]

it was a crime to the nation when she was scrapped..she should have been placed in drydock and honored for her helping win the war in the Pacific .

[MrDuckHD]

It was stupid how she was sold for scrap...

[MikeTMerciless]

As a former naval aviator (USS Harry S. Truman) I find it amazing that pilots of that era could find their way back to the flattop without radar, often during radio silence, and just blind luck. That's flying!

[frgets]

Lost Through Incompetence.

[Hellogamemaniac]

i thot the enterprise earned 23 stars

[madvid1996]

Correction: She was not one of the decorated US naval ships, she was the most decorated in the history of the US navy. She faught in 22 of 24 major Pacific battles, earning a battle star for each one. She is the ship with the highest toll of kills which included over 900 Japanese aircraft destroyed and 71 japanese war/transport ships sunk. She was nicknamed the lucky E for withstanding torpedo, bomb, and kamikaze hits without out sinking.

[rifleman10000]

@madvid1996 and the japanese offically declared her sinking 7 times

rest in peace good buddy

you will be remembered

[RMSQueenMary1930]

Later in the war it was upgraded to CV(N)-6.

[rifleman10000]

@RMSQueenMary1930 n stands for nuclear, she wasn't nuclear she stayed cv

[libertechnet]

@rifleman10000 Actually, no. In this case, CV(n)-6 stood for "night" and the Enterprise, CV-6, was the first carrier to earn the designation CV(n)-6, having the aircraft, equipment, officers and men capable of conducting night flight operations. The ship designation, CVN did not come about until the nuclear powered version of the U.S.S. Enterprise was configured to use nuclear propulsion.

[USSWISCONSIN64]

U did a good job doing this video. all hail the USS ENTERPRISE THE BIG E

[USSWISCONSIN64]

why did we scrap her. she is the best aircraft carrier in the world

[candr]

@USSWISCONSIN64

She wass also very out of date, jets could not use her flight deck. New York tried several times to raise money to save her as a memorial, but never cound get the interest so they scrapped her in New Jersey in 58'.

[USSWISCONSIN64]

@candr Still why would people do that to a awsome ship like enterprise. that sucks but she has history that is very good by this country we should honor that ship and make it a museum ship. well 50 years too late.

[candr]

@USSWISCONSIN64 I agree, but they just couldn't get the money. Our own memorial, the USS North Carolina, was saved from the scrap heap only because the people of the state really pushed to save it. I remember school kids giving dimes and their milk money to get it away from the yards. Almost didn't make it.

Most if not all such ships are saved by the people of the state, city or area that remembers it. It is a crying shame, I only got to see it in the yards before they broke it up.

[USSWISCONSIN64]

@candr but what anout the iowas and other warships. i don't get why we get good but not great ships to be a museum ship? like the enterprise. why does that happen?

[candr]

@USSWISCONSIN64

Again it comes down to money, budgets and public interest. In 57' there was not enough of that in one place at the same time. Most if not all the memorial ships are there through public support not the government. Again an example like our USS N.C. in 1960. It was almost scraped, came very close as a matter of fact. It took a last minute effort in public support and advertisement that saved the show boat. The Big E just didn't have it at the time, much the pity.

[libertechnet]

@candr it is because truthfully, no one wanted to remember the war at all. It was so awful and so cosuming, that when it was over, everyone was just glad the damn thing was finally over. No one spoke much about the war, and everyone looked ahead and went to work and got on with their lives. Yes, PTSD, etc... did exist, but people just dealt with it and went to work and stuffed all that back where it belonged. So there was no interest in preserving machines of war.

[seayasoon1]

My Dad was there:While Air Group 20's tour with Enterprise CV-6 was brief - lasting just three months, from August 16 to November 23, 1944 - they inflicted a disproportionate amount of damage on the enemy. Beginning in the Bonin Islands and ending in the Philippines, AG-20 sank 33 ships, damaged 79 more, and, together with the ship's gunners, downed or destroyed on the ground 345 enemy planes. In the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - by most measures the largest naval battle in history -

[ThebigEcv6]

wasn't the Enterprise "the" most decorated warship ever in the history of naval warfare?

[candr]

@ThebigEcv6

Most decorated in ww2, but yeah, probably the most decorated ever.

[USSWISCONSIN64]

Best carrier in the pacific war. She toke so many hits but keep on fighting. What i am saying is Hell of a ship.

[welcometotheshow713]

!Awesome video! The best carrier off ww2! Probably ever.

[stillstartreking]

all hail the greatest carrier ever the big E

[USSWISCONSIN64]

Best Carrier In the pacific. All hail the Enterprise.

[frankydman]

What remains of the USS Enterprise today? I'll tell you. Of the greatest ship to ever serve in the US Navy, only FOUR pieces survive:

1. Her Stern Nameplate

2. A Porthole

3. Her Bell

4. One of her anchors

[roflcoppter111]

the admiral tried to save it as a hostorical ship and turn it into a museum but the funding was never ther =(

[redrogue100]

@frankydman Each of the former crew members was given the opportunity to have a small cut block of the flight deck. Sorta good memory.

[possecomittatus]

USS Enterprise! She was the most decorated warship of WWII. Big E was capable of defeating any other warship of WWII, Armed with Hellcat and Corsair, and the SB2C there was nothing comparable.

[Agentx007x]

GO USS ENTERPRISE CV-6!

[slappymcgroundout]

"Zuikaku > Enterprise"

Fine ship, the Lucky Crane, but the IJN did not have Raymond Ames Spruance. Also didn't have adequate replacement pilots. Also didn't have the F6F Hellcat and the F4U Corsair. And for fitting partner to Enterprise there was the Dauntless (didn't have that either). That being said, the Lucky Crane is the Big E's companion, as the Big E was indeed the ever lucky talisman of the US Navy in the Pacific.

[frankydman]

@slappymcgroundout

Japanese carriers never were as good as their American counterparts. Here is a shinig example:

The Japanese supercarrier IJN Taiho was brought down by a single torpedo from USS Albacore in the battle of the Phillipene Sea, while the USS Franklin, an Essex-class aircraft carrier, once took a whole mess of bombs, torpedos and I think a kamikaze or two, and she still still stayed afloat.

[slappymcgroundout]

@frankydman

The Taiho blew up because one of the crew made the "innocent" but fatal mistake of trying to use the Taiho's ventilation system to vent out some gas fumes. As you can imagine, all the venting accomplished was to spread the fumes throughout the ship and so it took but a single spark to set the Taiho off like a giant firework.

[USSIowaBattleship61]

Did you know that in 1942 she got her wooden deck replaced with a metal deck? :D

[frankydman]

Was that before or after Midway?

[kaparl95]

they scrapped it because it's flight deck is too small and it's not strong enough to support the new planes. (ex. F-86 sabre)

[USSIowaBattleship61]

The Enterprise CV-6 was and is my favorite aircraft carrier, it's a Yorktown Class Fleet Carrier. Too bad they scraped it through 19581960.

[frankydman]

CV-6 should have been preserved...she had every right to be preserved...she deserved to become a museum and be visited by the generations that followed WWII...AND SHE WAS TURNED INTO RAZORBLADES!

What was the Navy thinking...we will never know

[sdfan00]

i heard that enterprise was sold for scraps . im only thinking why sell it .i think it was a great ship that should at least been on display. i mean it was in one of the biggest wars ever and was such a great ship.

[GamerGuy249]

she was launched 6 days and 60 months before mu b-day

[JohnWMichell]

i just bought a CV6 enterprise hat to memorize her since i heard she was not in the world anymore, but she will be remembered.

[soren517]

great you are one there know that uss enterprise is a WWII ship.

[ingaenterprise13]

yea! my fave !!!!!!!!!!!! great vid!

[spotlite999]

(that just goes to show the respect and the reputation she earned)

Anything else i need to type?

[spotlite999]

The Big E

The Grey Ghost

The Galloping Ghost

CV(N)-6

USS Enterprise

The First CV to sucsessfully launch a night attack

The most decorated warship in WWII

1 of only 2 CVs to start, and finish the war, but it was enterprise herself that pretty much saved the US in the pacific, Enterprise VS Japan and The Big E won.

In the battle of Okinawa the admiral in charge could have chosen an Essex class carrier as his flagship after the first one was nearly destroyed but he chose Enterprise.

[jers59]

First Mitscher chose Enterprise as his flagship because it was closest carrier with flag quarters to Bunker Hill after it was hit by 2 kamikazes. After Enterprise was hit he went to Randolph again it was closest carrier to him with flag quarters

[stillstartreking]

@spotlite999 don't forget the 20 battle stars and being the only non-brit ship the get the British Admiralty Pennant

[shathriel]

kind of funny that the ships like uss enterprise , hms illustrious and hms warspite which were in the thick of the action during WW2 and survived severe damage and earned numerous battle honours were just sold for scrap with little thought.

[AJStudios92]

Well I believe that towards the end of the war, the U.S. believed there was "No initial threat anymore" now that the axis nations were defeated. They decided to reduce the strength of the military.

[sg10nike]

@AJStudios92 yea the government said carriers wudnt play a part in any more wars

[Sten558]

@AJStudios92 it was scraped because its flightdeck was too short to launch the new kind of jet fighters at first there was a collection to leave it as a floating museum but the collection didt raise enough money to save it

[depth386]

@AJStudios92 Indeed debt was through the roof because of the war and demilitarization made alot of sense.

[mitsy616]

@shathriel It is such a shame too. But it was all about money.

[rifleman10000]

@shathriel it isn't funny it's sad

[mbm41796]

@shathriel It has been modified to its maximum level and can no longer cope up with Jet technology...though i do think they should have made it a floating museum

[NAVC130VET]

Thanks for posting the best carrier in WWII the Big E. An Amazing ship that had more scars and still fought on. It is a shame that she was scrapped.

[tx78654]

I just recently found out that my grandfather served on the USS Enterprise CV-6 beginning in 1941. Awesome tribute video!!!

[pedar94]

big E

[Jim4575]

Shame she was scraped !!! Her name lives on ! Star Trek named some of there ships after aircraft carriers. The Hornet, Saratoga, Yorktown, Intrepid, Essex, Wasp, Lexington and the Hood. They will not be forgotten!!!

[TheZuikaku]

Zuikaku > Enterprise.

[Jim4575]

Naturally .

[geminom]

its a shame she was sold as scrap metal in the end but i mean a carrier that cant hold jets after WW2 was a bit useless

[colindominy]

A grand & 'lucky' ship. The only original Pacific Fleet Carrier in the US Navy inventory to begin the Pacific War in '41, & to come home fully-intact & fighting fit in '45. All the others were sunk along the way. Altho she had some very close run-ins with the Nips & took serious hits in the Solomons Campaign, + with the Kamikazes later in the Pacific Campaign. But she emerged victorious, and she and all who served in her were a pride to their country, having served so well & so valiantly.

[GamerGuy249]

but right before the end of the war, a kamikazes hit her front elevator witch got her sent back to pearl for reparies before the u.s won

[Gdaus72]

its puget sound not pearl

[GamerGuy249]

@Gdaus72 WHAT

[xelinemert]

to bad enterprise got scrapped.....bull halsey said he would make it "the ship that best symbolizes the navy"......and enterprise museum....but it wasn't to be a museum or memorial to those who fought with it....

[tplanefun]

"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I INTEND TO GO IN HARMS WAY"

Captian Captian John Paul Jones would have liked the Big E!

[GamerGuy249]

the big was in harms way the whole war

[amoswt]

You did'nt earn 20 battle stars in ww2 by having strings pulled for you.They were just a bunch of good guys in the right mix.Professionals from the captain on down.

[warprohistory]

battle 360 is the best show o history channel besides dogfights, and shootout

[warprohistory]

i heard a rumor that says that the navy pulled strings so she was'nt wrecked

[warprohistory]

some called her the big-E some called her the grey ghost extc...

[slappymcgroundout]

The Grey Ghost is supposed to be the Hornet. The one they saved for tours has the illustrious experience of having a crewman decapitated by the arresting wire.  Not my first choice for memorial, but hey, I don't live in the SF Bay area either.

[warprohistory]

she was a great ship. she took a lot of damage but was abale to kick japans ass!

[razorbio998769]

yup.she has luck

[Phenixe427]

Great Video and nice tribute to Big E, its a damn shame the government didnt keep her as a museum ship. I want to point out to you that the photo at :58 - 1:02 with the Hellcat getting ready to take off is an Essex class carrier. Great job none the less, its good to see people dont forget important parts of history such as Enterprise and its accomplishments.

[AJStudios92]

why thank you and about that photo like it said in the credits I got all the pictures from google and wikipedia and when I made this there wasnt much on the enterprise on google or wikipedia

[jers59]

Uss Enterprise was scrapped by Union Mineral and alloys in Kearney new Jersey from 1958 to march 1960, which also scrapped the USS Essex which won 13 battle stars in WW2 second to Enterprise

[Truthseekerfinder]

From swords to ploughshares....

[Blaze3124]

it is kinda ironic that Hornet was sacrificed to save Enterprise, yet in the end Enterprise was scrapped and Hornet (CV-12 not 8) lived on. I wish Enterprise could've been saved fro the scrap heap, she was a fine warship.

[jers59]

Fightingest ship in WW2 20 battle stars, bombed and kamikazied came back for more.

[Blaze3124]

She never quit!

[jers59]

The 2 most decorated carriers from WW2 Enterprise 20 battle stars and Essex 13 battlestars for WW2 service were both scrapped at Kearny New Jersey

[Blaze3124]

Hornet had 12, well the 2nd Hornet. The First had 4 battle stars, but if she had survived she would have as much as the Enterprise. Both awsome ships.

[jers59]

Hornet CVS 12 won 7 battle stars in WW2 tied with saratoga, Wasp CVS 18 won 8 ,Lexington, Bunker Hill, Yorktown each won 11

[Blaze3124]

In WW2, but she continued to fight in Korea, Vietnam, and other conflicts.

[AJStudios92]

Ok let me get this straight. The origional Enterprise fought only in WW2 and then was scrapped in 1958, yearsbefore those conflicts. The one you might be talking about is CVN-65. The world's first nuclear powered carrier.

[Blaze3124]

I was talking about why USS Hornet CV-12 had 12 battle stars, not the Enterprise. CV-12 served into the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sorry if I wasn't to clear, my bad.

[AJStudios92]

It's ok we all make mistakes.

[BlackPhantomJambo]

@AJStudios92 i thinkl its stupid they rename carriers after carriers, like the yorktown, hornet, and enterprise

[Blaze3124]

Great carrier! Great Video! Nice job, hope you'll check out my video response.

[AJStudios92]

Yes its very good but why the song from Titanic isnt it a little "cleshay"

[Blaze3124]

Just felt like the right music to play. I'm glad the second Hornet rejoined the Big-E though, after the first one went down... Hornet and Enterprise are just 2 names that can't be separated. I'm gonna make a new video about CV-12 Hornet, I'll respond with it when it's finished. The music to this will be a little bit better, lol!

[NAVC130VET]

one hell of a ship!!! Wish I could go back into time and save her in 58

[LouDogIX]

Great video! I don't know if it is supposed to be there or not, but the carrier shown at 1:34 into the video is not Enterprise(CV-6).

[AJStudios92]

I know but when I made this video Battle 360 had just started and I get all my images from Google and it dosent give me enough materiael

[sargentshadow]

if u want to no that the "big e" dive bombers helped sink the kaga one of the japanese carriers sunk at midway

[blownglasslide]

Enterprise's bombers sank both Kaga and Akagi at that battle and helped sink Hiryu.

[Zasariz]

the current USS Enterprize will not be a floating museum AJ, it is America's first nuke powered carrier and it was given the name "Enterprize" to honor the memory of it's name sake. As for the origional Enterprize as a venteran on battle 360 stated " it was better to have her sold for scrap, than to have a bunch of children running around her decks spilling icecream" and like someone else said the song chosen might not exactly have been the best choice but other than that the video is a nice one

[Zasariz]

bah i'm tired it's 4 am here i spelled the ship's name wrong, let me correct that "Enterprise" =(

[FutureWarrior2006]

I personally think the Big E should have been turned into a floating museum. It was the most decorated ship in US history how can you NOT save it?? I guess that vet felt it was like the Germans burning hitlers body so the Soviets could not display it disrepectfully.

[theredraven]

Kids spilling ice cream on it is better than reducing it a few rsuty pieces of metal.

[AJStudios92]

OK about the song I think it best describes the big E because she was wanted by the Japanese and also she killed almost everything the Japanese threw at it. About video I cant seem to get any,if you seen any of my work you can see I cant get any

[coniferco]

I prefer live footage. Dad's squadron was moved to the Lex 12/44. CV-6 returned to Pearl and took VF(N)-90 aboard, and then returned to the engagements you saw in the final episode.

[coniferco]

If you've been watching 360, my Father was a fighter pilot at Leyte, in Bakutis' squadron, VF-20. As to the video here,the music is most inappropriate. It should be something from the 40's.

[FutureWarrior2006]

I cannot believe the USN scrapped the Big E. If ANY ship should be spared it should have been that one. It is pretty sad that they sold that thing for scrap but what makes it worse is that a JAPANESE company scrapped it.

[AJStudios92]

now thats what you call ironic

[coniferco]

As a veteran in the final episode commented, maybe it's better that CV-6 didn't become a tourist attraction, with kids running around and spilling ice cream on it.

[theredraven]

I agree it should be saved but whats the big deal about a Japanese comapany doing the scrapping? You do know WWII was over and the bad people running Japan were gone right? I'm sure the workers didn't jerk off the fact they were scrapping the "Big E".

[blownglasslide]

An American company scrapped the Big E in New Jersey... Who said it was a Japanese company?

[theredraven]

That's what the other guy said but you're right it was scrapped in New Jersey.

[kdraper2007]

A Japanease company bought the steel from the scrappng of Enterprise.

[DiphonFX]

Glad you guys enjoy Battle 360. I was the FX lead at one of the two companies working on it.

She certainly was a great ship.

[AJStudios92]

are you?

[DiphonFX]

yep I worked on the show.

[betin0022]

r.i.p.---big E. Im happy that battle 360 is making some honor of this great ship im even gonna buy the series... and i agree it would have been a hell of a museum attraction....complete with a wax statue of bull halsey... lot of history would of been on that ship.

[AJStudios92]

thats true,maybe they will turn the new one into a museum

[AJStudios92]

I truly feel the same way

[WarBahamutX]

The Enterprise should of been saved as a museum and not scrap bullshit this is how america honors history its just fucking sad