Episode Guide

For Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise, destined to become the most decorated ship of World War II, the Pacific War begins on 7 December, 1941. Returning from a Top Secret Mission, her air groups fly right into the attack on Pearl Harbour.

During the early weeks of World War II, as America suffers one defeat after another, Enterprise is one of the few shining lights as she sinks enemy submarines, hits the Japanese Navy in the Marshall Islands and supports the famous Doolittle Raid.

Destined to become the most decorated ship of World War II, USS Enterprise and sister carriers Yorktown and Hornet turn the tide of the Pacific War.

In just a few violent days in the waters off Midway Island, the American carrier fleet pulverizes the Imperial Japanese Navy. Enterprise helps secure one of America's first victories in World War II.

In the summer of 1942, the American Navy is on the offensive and the first strike is in the Solomon Islands, north of Australia.

USS Enterprise supports the first American invasion of World War II as U.S. Marines storm ashore at Guadalcanal. The Japanese strike back with a vengeance and in a hellish slugfest the Enterprise suffers her worst battle damage yet.
 

Part two of the deadly saga of the Solomons plays out at the Santa Cruz Islands.

In one terrible day of vicious combat, Enterprise loses her sister ship USS Hornet and suffers dozens of casualties as bombs nail her flight deck. When the smoke clears, Enterprise is the only American carrier left in the Pacific. For the U.S. Navy at Santa Cruz, survival becomes the ultimate battle.

November 1942. For the crew aboard USS Enterprise, the war has never been more personal. Enterprise is the only battle-ready American carrier left in the Pacific, and she and her crew are all that stand in the way of the Japanese.

When the Imperial Navy tries to retake Guadalcanal, it's Enterprise that sends their transports and destroyers to a watery grave in Iron Bottom Sound.

The Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise was the most decorated ship of World War II. Enterprise was the first ship to receive the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest award any American vessel can achieve.

Watch as she is refitted with new technology and returns to taunt the enemy. The first night air operations ever launched from a carrier are flown from the decks of Enterprise during the bloody Gilbert invasion.

In 1944 the USS Enterprise and the Carrier Task Forces push on through the Pacific and hammer the enemy bases at Kwajalien and Truk Lagoon. The Japanese make a desperate stand in the Marshall Islands. From the Marshalls, Enterprise sets a course for New Guinea and supports the invasion of Hollandia during Operation Persecution.

While the Allies storm France, American forces hit Saipan in the Marianas Island. The Enterprise supports one of the largest and most deadly battles of the Pacific War. Enterprise and her sister carriers nearly wipe out Japanese Naval Airpower in the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" and devastate enemy surface forces in the Philippine Sea. It is one of the greatest carrier battles of the war and contributed to the Aircraft Carrier becoming one of the most decorated ships of World War II.

USS Enterprise and her escort ships and submarines engage in the largest sea battle ever. In a series of ferocious surface and air firefights, the Japanese Navy is totally eviscerated in the last great naval engagement in world history.

With the enemy fleet in chaos, Enterprise and the American carrier force clear the way for an American invasion of the Philippines and set the course for the road to Tokyo.

In the winter of 1945, Enterprise hits Luzon, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Iwo Jima. The Big E also unleashes a brand new night air-group from her flight deck.

But as the US Navy closes in on Okinawa and the Japanese homeland, the Empire unleashes a hellish weapon - the Kamikaze. Sailors and Marines on Enterprise now face the horror of deadly suicide attackers as the Allies tighten the grip on Japan and secure victory in the Pacific.