CH01 - 16 AUG 1936
Newport News, Virgiania
Stevedore Adam Demkowicz
There were approximately 1500 Maryland men who put their hands in, on, and around her. She was a thing of absolute beauty. There was no girl like her in the whole world. It would take ten years for the rest of the world to figure that out.
Her name was USS Enterprise. She was one of the brand new carriers in the Yorktown Class. She was built to hold 1000 planes and three times as many sailors.
CH02 - 04 DEC 1941
Scouting Squadron Pilot
Pearl Harbor
His first battle would be his last.
CH03 - 23 DEC 1941
Bryan Hickey - Mechanical Engineer
Battle for Wake Island
Begins with the Surrender of Wake Island to the Japanese. Ends with Attack on Wake Island
CH04 - 18 APR 1942
Doolittle Raid
CH05 - 02 JUN 1942
Petty Officer Second Class - Keith Carpenter
Battle of Midway
CH06 - 04 AUG 1942
USMC Communications Officer Sergeant
Marine - Beach Raid
Battle of Guadalcanal
Turns from Comm Officer to Bravo Grunt
CH0b - 24 AUG 1942
Battle of Guadalcanal
Petty Officer First Class / Fireman
Val Dive Bomber Pierces CV-6 Deck
Killed in Action
CH07 - 25 AUG 1942
Guadalcanal Beach Raid - Capturing "Henderson Field"
The Night Fight - Americans Seem to be Winning / Morning Sheds New Light
Near Total Pull-Out the Next Morning.
The Big E Takes a Hit.
CH08 - 26 OCT 1942
Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
Yeoman / Anti-Aircraft Gunner's Mate
CH09 - 14 NOV 1942
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
USN Dauntless Dive Bomber Pilot Jack Schuyler
Bomb Fuser - Aircraft Armament
(when Bomb bounces on deck - he's the one who rolls the bomb into the Pacific.
CH10 - -30 JAN 1943
Battle of Rennell Island
CH11 - 26 NOV 1943
Lt. Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O'Hare***
TBF Torpedo Plane Avenger Pilot
"The Black Panthers" - 1st USN Night Combat Patrol
CH12a - 16 FEB 1944
Truk Atoll / Caroline Islands
"Betty" Pilot Yashomura Ohba
"You mean they've just got all these ships gathered together in one place? That seems...."
"Vaguely familiar? We're going to put every piece of Japanese steel on the bottom of that lagoon."
- - - Attack of the "Bettys"
Ch12b - 12 APR 1944
Second Attack - Truk Atoll
- - - Re-built Bomber Fields for IJN.
19 JUN 1944
Battle of the Philippine Sea
First Admiral Koga
23 OCT 1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Lt. Cmdr E.E. Evans (Taffy 3)
21 FEB 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima
