US Navy Carriers in first Pacific attacks
1 February 1942: Air groups from USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Yorktown (CV-10), attack targets in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
The Enterprise, the carrier Yorktown, four heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and ten destroyers, made a foray into the Gilbert and …
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