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US Navy Carriers in first Pacific attacks
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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.

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The ‘Big E’ USS Enterprise (CV-6). Landing aircraft while supporting the Gilberts Operation, 22 November 1943. Enterprise was the most decorated warship of World War II earning 20 Battle Stars—three more than any other ship.

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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