Enterprise : America's fightingest ship and the men who helped win World War II / Barrett Tillman.
The USS Enterprise took part in twenty battles during World War II--no other American ship came close. Enterprise is credited with sinking or wrecking 71 Japanese ships and destroying 911 enemy aircraft. This is the epic, heroic story of this legendary aircraft carrier--nicknamed "the fightinge...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Kearny, New Jersey, 1958
- "I have done the state some service" (1938-1941)
- "Keep cool, keep your heads, and fight" (December 1941-May 1942)
- "Revenge, sweet revenge" (June 1942)
- "We didn't know a damned thing" (August 1942)
- "A fighting chance" (October 1942)
- "The most exciting part of your day" (November 1942-January 1943)
- "A long and teedjus journey" (February-December 1943)
- "If any of them lived it wasn't our fault" (January-June 1944)
- "Vector two seven zero" (June-July 1944)
- "Only human" (August-December 1944)
- "Live with great enthusiasm" (January-May 1945)
- "The Enterprise has a soul" (1945-1958)