Enterprise

America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II

Barrett Tillman

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781439190883
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439190890
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and of the courageous men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict.

Acclaimed military historian Barrett Tillman recounts the World War II exploits of America’s most decorated warship and its colorful crews— tales of unmatched daring and heroism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Note on Distances and Aircraft Code Names
• Prologue: Kearny, New Jersey, 1958
• Chapter 1: “I Have Done the State Some Service” (1938–41)
• Chapter 2: “Keep Cool, Keep Your Heads, and Fight” (December 1941–May 1942)
• Chapter 3: “Revenge, Sweet Revenge” (June 1942)
• Chapter 4: “We Didn’t Know a Damned Thing” (August 1942)
• Chapter 5: “A Fighting Chance” (October 1942)
• Chapter 6: “The Most Exciting Part of Your Day” (November 1942–January 1943)
• Chapter 7: “A Long and Teedjus Journey” (February–December 1943)
• Chapter 8: “If Any of Them Lived, It Wasn’t Our Fault” (January–June 1944)
• Chapter 9: “Vector Two-Seven-Zero” (June–July 1944)
• Chapter 10: “Only Human” (August–December 1944)
• Chapter 11: “Live with Great Enthusiasm” (January–May 1945)
• Chapter 12: “The Enterprise Has a Soul” (1945–58)
• Appendix 1: American Aircraft
• Appendix 2: Japanese Aircraft
• Acknowledgments
• Photographs
• About Barrett Tillman
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright