American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6 COBI 4815 - World War II

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Do you know that:

• Enterprise nickname was the "Big E"?
• was launched on October 3, 1936 and baptized by the wife of the Minister of the Navy, Julia Swanson?
• was the ship built under the $ 20 million New Deal program, which helped the US economy recover from the deep economic crisis?
• the Enterprise entered the war on November 28, 1941 with Combat Order No. 1?
• the aircraft carrier took part in many important operations during the fighting in the Pacific and the Japanese declared it sunk 3 times?
• did the Enterprise carry 673,803 liters of fuel for its aircraft below decks?
• the crew was a proud holder of the British flag 20 battle star?
• after the war, was the ship transferred to the reserves and finally scrapped on July 1, 1958?

Technical parameters:

• displacement 19,800 tons
• length 252.2 m
• width 33.4 m
• draft 7.91 m
• drive 4 x propeller
• speed 60.2 km / h
• range 23,200 km
• armament 8 x cannon caliber 127 mm + 4x cannon caliber 28 mm + 16x cannon Bofors caliber 40 mm + 24 x machine gun M2 Browning caliber 12.7 mm (later 50x cannon Oerlikon caliber 20 mm)
• number of deck lifts 3
• number of aircraft carried up to 96
• 9-wheel drive Babcock & Wilcox, 4 sets of Parsons steam turbines with an output of 120,000 hp
  fuel heating oil, tanks with a total volume of 6,500 tons of oil
• crew peacekeeping 1,889, during war operations 2,919

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