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USS Enterprise (CV-6)
USS ''Enterprise'' (CV-6), was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Colloquially referred to as the "Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. A carrier, she was launched in 1936 and was one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to World War II to survive the war (the others being and ). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than 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. On three separate occasions during the Pacific War, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle, earning her the name "The Grey Ghost". ''Enterprise'' earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II and became the most decorated US ship of World War II.
==Construction and commissioning==
The second carrier of the , ''Enterprise'' was launched on 3 October 1936 at Newport News Shipbuilding, sponsored by Lulie Swanson, wife of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and commissioned on 12 May 1938 with Captain N. H. White in command. ''Enterprise'' sailed south on a shakedown cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro. 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.
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