Tgunner | 08 Sep 2016 6:31 p.m. PST |
I was just looking over this article and felt more than a little depressed: link Lots on CVN65.. but not a peep about the ship that really won glory to the name, Enterprise. CV6 USS Enterprise
20 Battlestars. More than any other US ship in WWII. 1 sub sunk on 10 December, 1941. The first US Warship kill in the Pacific. Her warplanes score some of the first US Navy air-to-air kills on December 7th while flying back to Pearl. 4 Major carrier engagements More than any other US flattop. 1 Battleship kill during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. 2 Japanese CVs sunk at Midway. 3 times reported by the Japanese as being sunk. The Big E, the Galloping Ghost, The Gray Ghost, the Lucky E. Too bad she was scrapped. To me she is the "real" Enterprise. |
mjkerner | 08 Sep 2016 6:41 p.m. PST |
Boy, I agree. There is a lot of press on 65, little to none (it seems) on 6. There even seems to be more Cv65 minis than for the glory winner. |
Winston Smith | 08 Sep 2016 7:43 p.m. PST |
Exactly. There must always be an Enterprise in the United States Navy. The heck with naming after politicians. |
Winston01 | 08 Sep 2016 7:47 p.m. PST |
So soon we forget about the true heroes like CV 6, replaced by more recent and modern thoughts. |
robert piepenbrink | 08 Sep 2016 7:55 p.m. PST |
Agree with the good Mr. Smith. I can remember when the best a politician could hope for was a Destroyer, and then only if he'd been in the Navy. Of course, I'm so old I can remember paying for school lunches with real silver coins which did NOT have Presidents on them, but symbols of America and of liberty. It's a bad sign for a republic when politicians get the perks of kings. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 08 Sep 2016 9:19 p.m. PST |
Aye,Robert, 'n d'ye recall them doubloons 'n pieces of eight? Thems was th' real monees! (Sorry--almost the 19th--Arrrh!) youtu.be/zdSkDXs00xg |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 08 Sep 2016 10:58 p.m. PST |
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GarrisonMiniatures | 09 Sep 2016 6:01 a.m. PST |
'Exactly. There must always be an Enterprise in the United States Navy.' And the RN… link link |
GarrisonMiniatures | 09 Sep 2016 6:09 a.m. PST |
Strangely, in both cases the first one was not the original name – they were both prizes. The original USS Enterprise was captured by Benedict Arnold, the original HMS Enterprise was originally the French frigate L'Entreprise. Which means the first Enterprise was French… so Picard as Captain of one seems right somehow. |
Murvihill | 09 Sep 2016 10:38 a.m. PST |
Didn't someone sink a midget submarine on Pearl Harbor Day? |
Ed Mohrmann | 09 Sep 2016 11:31 a.m. PST |
Yes, apparently the USS Ward link Discovery did a story on it a few years ago, actually took one of the gun crew down in a submersible so he could see that the shot actually hit the sub |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 09 Sep 2016 1:01 p.m. PST |
BTW,in contrast with my usual nonsense,the links on my second post above are of CV 6 Under attack. Notice the speed of the swerve. I remember my father saying how much the escorts had to struggle trying to keep up with the carriers(he was on DD'S after the war started. His old ship,USS Oklahoma, escaped the scrapyard by sinking on the way to the breakers. Good for her,I say). |
Tgunner | 09 Sep 2016 7:17 p.m. PST |
Yes, they think the Ward got one. However the sub the Enterprise took down, the I-70, with her scout bombers was a fleet boat and not a mini sub. So it was a more proper warship and not one of the "daughter" craft. |