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Enterprise : America's fightingest ship and the men who helped win World War II by Tillman, Barrett is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS __Enterprise__, and of the men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict.Pearl Harbor . . . Midway . . . Guadalcanal . . . The Marianas . . . Leyte Gulf . . . Iwo Jima . . . Okinawa. These are just seven of the twenty battles that the USS __Enterprise__ took part in during World War II. No other American ship came close to matching her record. __Enterprise__ is the epic, heroic story of this legendary aircraft carrier—nicknamed “the fightingest ship” in the U.S. Navy—and of the men who fought and died on her. America’s most decorated warship, __Enterprise__ was constantly engaged against the Japanese Empire from December 1941 until May 1945. Her career was eventful, vital, and short. She was commissioned in 1938, and her bombers sank a submarine just three days after the Pearl Harbor attack, claiming the first seagoing Japanese vessel lost in the war. It was the auspicious beginning of an odyssey that Tillman captures brilliantly, from escorting sister carrier __Hornet__ as it lau
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- Author
- Tillman, Barrett
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439190876
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (179 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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