The aircraft were fired on by anti-aircraft defenses, and one pilot radioed in, reporting that his aircraft was an American aircraft. VADM Halsey ordered every able bodied man on board to help rearm and refuel Enterprise the entire 24-hour process took only 7 hours. The next evening, Enterprise, screened by six of her Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters, pulled into Pearl Harbor for fuel and supplies. It was while returning to Hawaii after delivering Marine Fighter Squadron 211 (VMF-211) to Wake Island, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7.Įnterprise was at sea on the morning of 7 December 1941and received a radio message from Pearl Harbor, reporting that the base was under attack. Enterprise was completing one such mission when she left Pearl Harbor on 28 November 1941. Based first at San Diego (where she was used in the filming of Dive Bomber, starring Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray) and then at Pearl Harbor after President Roosevelt ordered the Fleet to be "forward based," the carrier and her aircraft squadrons trained intensively and transported aircraft among the island bases of the Pacific. Murray assumed command of the carrier on 21 March 1941. After her return, she operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean until April 1939, when she was ordered to duty in the Pacific.Įnterprise was one of fourteen ships to receive the early RCA CXAM-1 radar. Enterprise sailed south on a shakedown cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro. Swanson, and commissioned on with Captain Newton H. The second carrier of the Yorktown-class, Enterprise was launched on 3 October 1936 at Newport News Shipbuilding, sponsored by Lulie Swanson, wife of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Propulsion: 4×shafts 4 × Parsons geared steam turbines Installed power: 120,000 shp(89,484 kW) 9×Babcock & Wilcox boilers
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