Ship Against Plane

Good footage of the USS Enterprise (CV-6) under attack.

The "Big E", was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the seventh U.S. Navy ship to bear that name. She was a ship of the Yorktown class launched in 1936, and one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than did 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, as well as the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo. On three separate occasions during the Pacific War the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle.

Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II. She was the only ship outside of the British Royal Navy to earn the highest award of the British Admiralty Pennant in the more than 400 years since its creation. Some have labeled her the most glorious and honored ship in all of United States Naval history, rivaled only perhaps by the 18th century frigate USS Constitution.

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• Enterprise
• CV-6
• ww2
• pacific

[Highsky95]

the Enterprise was an Essex class carrier, it was built druing the war and only survived because it was built and commisioned well after major carrier battles, by then the war was swinging to the Allies favour. the Ranger was a one of ship of no class

[Bomberguy]

The Enterprise was Yorktown class launched in 1936, read the sidebar!!!

[dokaw]

Give it a break. It's old 1940's propaganda rhetoric, you can't expect them to hold up to today's political correctness.

[r1wantone]

Top footage, it doesn't get any more real than this

[MysticalGrooveWTC]

propaganda bullshits

[madxico]

Bomberguy you´re my favourite history class teacher ever!

[jamessavik]

@binaway right

[binaway]

@jamessavik radar guided gunfire and with proximity fused shells.

[jamessavik]

once radar directed gunfire was deployed across the fleet, it was all over but the crying.

even suicide planes had difficulty getting through

[decimated550]

@tierfuehrer2 - i've seen it too,. The corsair has a long snout, to house that long powerful engine. Now a plane's tail sinks as it slows down for a landing. With the corsair, that meant a straight in approach meant the pilot all but lost sight of the deck as he neared in. That led to many accidents. I remember that the brits invented the curving left turn landing, which means the carrier deck was in full view for nearly the entire final approach, by the pilot simply looking left.

[zilbiol]

@dokaw I'd describe today's political correctness as rhetoric and 1940s propoganda as talking straight.

[dividednation44]

2:44 dive bombers attacking.

2:50 japanese pilot with real gutts insults amerikan AA guns by flying maneuvers close to it.

3:50 dive bomb penetrates through the side of the deck and appearently piereces something below and burns it.

4:23 dive bomb penetrates through the entire deck and haul, must be flaming seriously down there.

5:09 an f6f? slided all the way to the right, looks like because the carrier is doing lots of maneuvers.

propaganda footage, lots of whats said in it is bullshit.

[ARCHIBALDHAX]

the way he talks makes me think that whats he's talking about is important.