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USS Enterprise, a fighting city of steel She is the most revered and decorated ship of World War II On this 360-degree battlefield, where threats loom on the seas, in the skies and in the ocean depths The Enterprise's enemies could be anywhere and everywhere There's nowhere to run when the battle's all around you Battle 360 USS Enterprise, the Empire's last stand January 10th, 1945 3 a.m. A squadron of bombers and fighters launch off the deck of USS Enterprise For three solid years, USS Enterprise has been leading America's war on the Pacific No other ship has seen so much combat No other vessel has won so many victories This ship saw all of the high points of the war against Japan She defeated Japan not single-handed, but she was out there in the precarious times when nobody else was out there She may have missed a few battles, but she didn't miss many Now Three years after Pearl Harbor, Enterprise unleashes a new strategy against the Japanese Empire Night air attacks 300 miles away from Enterprise, 15 ships of a Japanese convoy run supplies to the Imperial fleet under cover of darkness They hug the coast of what is now Vietnam The 21 Enterprise night birds spot the fat target near dawn and go to work Lieutenant Russ Kippen leads the attack in his torpedo bomber He's already a hero, an experienced night fighter who led the daring attack on Truk Lagoon in 1944 Now, he sets his sights on a Japanese light cruiser Soaring in at only 500 feet above sea level, Kippen drops both of his bombs They bracket the cruiser, forcing her to veer off Another bomber begins his run And hits a destroyer midship At the same time, Hellcat fighters tear up the decks of the ships with machine gun fire The Hellcats have a new weapon in their arsenal High-velocity rockets Each fighter can fire off six rockets so powerful, they gain the nickname Holy Moses They travel at over 1,300 feet per second With a range of over 6,000 feet And an explosive warhead that can penetrate armor The rockets rip from beneath the Hellcats' wings Punching holes in one of the merchant ships When the Enterprise bombers break off the attack near dawn Three ships are sunk Two more are damaged and heading for shore And another two ships are dead in the water It's been a good night This is the new face of warfare A trail being blazed by Enterprise and her men As they lay claim to the night Two weeks before, Enterprise steamed out of Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve She had undergone some major renovations Including new landing lights and new planes Each equipped with the newest radar technology Radar already allows ships to see incoming threats But more importantly The aircraft-mounted radar gives the Allied forces a new tactical advantage Flying at night In addition to new technology Now Enterprise also has a new designation She was once CV-6 Now she is CVN-6 The N stood for night operation So she becomes the first and only night operating carrier Commander Bill Martin is the mastermind behind night fighting But night operations has its detractors in the Navy brass They thought why are we doing this new thing Why are we doing night operations We're already winning the war Bill Martin has his own personal mission To prove that night operations are not only viable They are necessary There's clearly a huge strategic advantage To be able to attack at night If you can't find me, you can't shoot me What are the disadvantages Well, now your pilots have to fly a night mission Which is high stress physiologically And then come back and land on a carrier at night That's not easy Radio man Tom Watts Has been training with the pilots of Enterprise In the art of flying in the dark Planes are all blacked out Exhaust on each side of the engines were covered If you flew in formation, the guy next to you You could look out and see his wing Almost in your window there But if flying in the dark is difficult Landing is worse Pilots must guide themselves through the dark To their home target using only radar Then try to land on the bucking deck of the carrier With few visual cues All they had for night landing Was a little string of lights Up the center of the flight deck It's a tough job in the daytime At night time, it's really rough But Enterprise must also operate during the day Flying combat air patrol during enemy attacks And keeping her flight deck open to receive planes That are too damaged to make it back To their home carriers Round-the-clock combat schedules go into effect War is now a 24-hour affair January 5th, 1945 Five days before combat begins Enterprise meets up with its task force There are six full-size carriers Six light carriers Battleships, destroyers and support craft 116 ships in all The most powerful naval strike force The world has ever seen The task force makes its way To the South China Sea It is the first time that allied forces Have entered the Japanese-controlled sea Since the war began Attack on the Japanese convoy Is only the first strike In less than two weeks The pilots of the Big E fly 4,000 miles Sink 200,000 tons of shipping And strike at the mainland outposts Of Japan's empire The night fighters Are already proving their worth Two weeks later Enterprise gets its biggest challenge January 22nd, 2 a.m. Seven TBM Avengers launch into the night Each carries two 500-pound bombs Six 5-inch rockets One pilot One electronics officer And one radar operator It's not an easy position We had to navigate Where we wanted to go Plus use radar Plus drop bombs Plus drop flares They fly due west for 212 miles Then northwest for another 100 miles Until they reach the island of Formosa The radar man picks up The pattern of Kuran Harbor On the radar scopes At 4.30 a.m. The attack begins The TBM's targets Are the outer and inner harbors Fat with supply ships Land-based targets are vital oil tanks And a small arms factory But those who fly by radar Can die by radar Japanese radar picks up the incoming attackers An anti-aircraft fills the sky Bill Martin has a simple plan Based on his intimate knowledge Of radar operations He climbs to 8,000 feet And flies toward the inner harbor Guided by radars Japanese anti-aircraft Point toward him What the enemy doesn't know Is that Russ Kippen is flying 8,000 feet directly below him So that both planes show up As a single blip on the Japanese radar As the anti-aircraft Targets the high planes Kippen's Avengers soar in undetected Flight Group makes three runs Using the same technique Dropping their bombs On tankers and warehouses One Avenger unleashes its rockets On a small arms factory It makes a satisfying fireworks display Flight Group veers back home Three planes are unaccounted for Last I heard of Kippen He said that search flights Then I didn't hear Anything more about him Commander Martin tried to call Kippen But had no answer So eventually he had to Come back by himself He lost three planes So that was a big blow To our squadron Despite their losses The night bombers of Enterprise Keep up the pressure on the enemy With midnight attacks On the Japanese home islands And now that the Japanese Have become more ferocious In their defenses And more desperate in their attacks So for the Japanese They're turning up the intensity They're fighting more savagely They're resisting With more and more stubbornness Nowhere is Japan's desperate Newfound ferocity more evident Than at the tiny strip of Pacific land Called Iwo Jima On February 19th The war at Iwo Jima begins While Marines storm the beaches And fight inch by inch Enterprise fighters Will keep an average of 50 flights Over the island every 24 hours Non-stop for seven full days A feat unequaled in the war But the results of this punishing drill Speak for themselves On sea On land And in the air There was not one successful Enemy air attack on the Marines Or the beachhead All the time we were providing Combat air patrol at Iwo Jima From the 21st of February Until the 10th of March The iconic flag raising Actually signals the beginning Of the Iwo invasion Not the end But it's a signal that the Enterprise And her pilots can leave the battle area For a much needed rest In the long run March 18th 5.17 a.m. Enterprise floats near Iwo Jima As the first flights return From their night bombing raids Enterprise radar spots A formation of aircraft 75 miles away And closing fast But they can't tell If the planes are friend or foe At 7.30 a.m. The men of Enterprise See the formation themselves Looks like an American squadron A single plane Breaks away from the group 500 feet above sea level And begins a shallow glide Toward Enterprise We watched it coming And she looked just like a TVF Nobody fired at it All we could see was the front And she kept coming And coming and coming But at 200 feet away The horrifying truth hits And suddenly we realized This wasn't a friendly airplane And he literally was flying Just a few feet above our flight deck It's a Judy dive bomb The Big E's 20-millimeter guns Rattle out their response But it is too late Only a few feet above the flight deck The Judy opens her belly door And drops a 550-pound bomb I thought, oh God, that's the end of us I got blown up in the air It came down on my rear end And I heard this voice saying Sir, can we abandon the battery? The bomb is down here And there was this big ugly bomb Right beside one of our batteries The bomb miraculously has crashed Through the flight deck Bounces back up and skitters across the deck Without going off All these Marines were there White faces, big, big eyes Staring at it All eyes are on the terrifying object Until young sailor Pedro Sandoval Can't stand it any longer I look around Trying to see which way to get rid of it So some of my friends helped me Roll the bomb all the way to the fantail And drop it off the flight deck Into the water We didn't know nothing about Whether the bomb was armed or not We just went out there to get rid of it It is a direct hit at point-blank range And it turns out to be a dud Lucky Enterprise Once again earns her nickname But incredibly The war is about to get even closer To Enterprise The day after the dud bomb strike Enterprise floats in formation At the far side of the task group Carrier USS Franklin Launches fighter strikes Against the Japanese harbor of Kobe At 7 a.m. An enemy dive bomber plunges from the sky It hits Franklin With two 550-pound bombs Both fore and aft Franklin is not as lucky As Enterprise was the day before The bombs are devastating Causing gas planes to explode Sending fires throughout the ship Blowing men overboard 20-year-old Edward Suto Has been in action on Enterprise For over a year But he has never seen Anything like this We were there when she got hit She had over 40 explosions Scared you From over 10 miles away The men of Enterprise Can literally feel a series of Thudding blasts as her bombs And torpedoes self-detonate in the fire It's reminiscent of the damage That Big E took on at Santa Cruz Only this is worse I don't know how long it went on But it was just hard to believe That a boat could go through Such agony and still survive 724 are killed And 265 are wounded Enterprise hurries to the rescue Of the listing carrier Enterprise patrols fly close cover Round the clock to protect The wounded giant As she makes her way To the American base at Ulithi 1,300 miles away The ship is under tow But incredibly Franklin's engines are repaired Within 24 hours No carrier has ever received Such massive damage And survived She begins to steam Under her own power Into the Navy repair port When a ship comes into port They generally go to quarters Which means the sailors line the deck And standing at attention So they're looking As ship-shaped as possible But when the Franklin went in To that port The Franklin had this little knot of men It was all that were left Standing rigidly at attention And that's all there was But they were a proud-looking bunch As the American fleet Gets closer to Japan The enemy's strikes are more deadly The Enterprise crew Watches the gallant survivors Of Franklin And they know This could have been them The next day It will be Enterprise's turn March 20th Enterprise returns To her base of operations Off Okinawa They expect an attack From the same fliers Who hit Franklin They are not disappointed The initial wave The bomber drops Its 500-pound payload The bomb travels the entire length Of the Big E's deck Before it hits the sea Less than 50 feet From the starboard bow It explodes in the ocean Sending jets of water Over the flight deck At 4.24, another duty begins its dive The ship's guns open up Taking her out just 500 feet away But the Big E's fabled luck May be starting to run out As the duty dives Enterprise is hit by two Five-inch exploding shells From one of her own ships We got a lot of damage From our own anti-aircraft fire And you can't really help that It's the ship in line On the other side Why that's tough luck The American shells Hit the Big E's 40-millimeter gun tub Killing seven men And wounding 30 The explosion sets fire To a nearby Hellcat Its ammo ignites At the same moment Another duty dives Heading straight toward the deck At 500 feet she drops her package The bomb explodes on the port deck Enterprise is on fire The whole island structure Had flames going through it And our platform That we worked off of Was just like a griddle With a fire underneath it Damage control leaps into action Spraying fire foam Across the flaming deck Enterprise carries a damage control crew Of 300 Spread out in small groups Throughout the ship The Big E's damage control chief John Monroe Had been wise enough To secretly requisition Several times his quota of fire foam While back in Pearl Now it's paying off Within 30 minutes The fires raging on deck Are under control 15 minutes after that All fires are out Enterprise guns continue To hammer at the sky They shoot down the last bomber At 5.10 p.m. The skies are clear once again With the flames smothered Its clear that the bomb damage Is surprisingly minor An Enterprise is left With a strange souvenir of the attack The fuselage of a Japanese dive bomber Is lodged in the hull of the ship We look down And the engine is stuck In the side of the ship And of course the wave action Of our ship going 20, 25 knots Had the plane torn up A little bit more all the time The Enterprise has been hit But she is still going strong Her luck has held so far As Enterprise heads For the Navy Repair Base At Ulithi Atoll The Japanese are now creating A far more deadly fighting force One that yearns only for death Called Kamikaze The Divine Wind They are a potent threat The first suicide attacks Back in 1942 May have been ad hoc decisions By wounded fighter pilots But by late 1944 They have become Japanese policy Is the mastermind Of the Kamikaze squadrons Onishi realizes That his poorly trained Under equipped Air Corps May have one final force multiplier Suicide strikes Now in April Allied Intelligence reports That Onishi has assembled An entire force of 400 aircraft Of every type and age Each packed with as much Explosives as possible It is Japan's final defense As fanatical And I don't necessarily think That they should be Construed in such a way Of course yes The Japanese were at that point In a desperate situation But it has to be construed As the Japanese using A serious weapon A serious and deadly weapon To the crewmen of Enterprise The Kamikaze are confusing Inexplicable Terrifying What was going on in their minds You didn't know if they were Gonna do that again It changed the whole complexion Of the war You can't rationalize We're not coming from the same place It doesn't make any sense It's pretty scary The Japanese are willing To sacrifice their best And the tactics are working