Enterprise Photographs | World War II Database

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USS Enterprise underway, circa 1937, location unknown	USS Enterprise at anchor, 1938-40, location unknown

Aerial view of carrier Enterprise underway, 12 Apr 1939	USS Enterprise in the Pacific Ocean, en route to Pearl Harbor in US Territory of Hawaii, 8 Oct 1939

Enterprise with with TBD and SBC aircraft parked on flight deck, circa 1940	Submarines Salmon, Seal, Pickerel, Plunger, Snapper, and Permit, San Diego harbor, California, United States, 1940; note carrier Enterprise in background

Straight down aerial view of the piers and drydocks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States full of battleships and one carrier, USS Enterprise, 1940.	USS Enterprise in the Pacific turning into the wind to recover aircraft, late June 1941 before her natural wood flight deck was stained blue in July 1941.

TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bomber landing on Enterprise, Jul 1941	Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Oct 10, 1941. Carrier Enterprise and Repair Ship Curtiss are moored alonfside Ford Island on the right of the photograph.

F4F-3 Wildcat inside USS Enterprise's hangar deck, 28 Oct 1941; note spare TBD and SBD aircraft hanging overhead	F4F-3 Wildcat undergoing maintenance in USS Enterprise's hangar deck, 28 Oct 1941; note spare propellers hanging overhead

Aerial view looking south at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 30 Oct 1941; note partial view of Battleship Row at left and USS Enterprise at upper left	An SBD-3 Dauntless dive-bomber of Bombing Squadron 6 prepares for launch from the carrier USS Enterprise, early 1942.

US Navy Vice Admiral William Halsey with his Aircraft Battle Force staff in late 1941 or with Task Force 16 staff in early 1942, aboard USS Enterprise	Pilots of Fighting Squadron Six posing in front of a F4F-3 Wildcat aboard Enterprise, Jan 1942

Flag officers aboard USS Enterprise being welcomed back to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 5 Feb 1942 after the Marshalls-Gilberts Raids. VAdm William Halsey (center) with RAdm’s Aubrey Fitch and Raymond Spruance at each end.	Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting the Navy Cross to Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate Harold F. Dixon aboard USS Enterprise at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Mar 1942.

TBD-1 Devastator and F4F-3 Wildcat aircraft parked on Enterprise's flight deck, Apr 1942	Wildcat of VF-6 testing out machine guns aboard USS Enterprise, 10 Apr 1942

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