USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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Enterprise supported the Okinawa
operation until 11 April, 1945, when she was damaged by a suicide plane, and
forced back to Ulithi. Off Okinawa once more on 6 May, Enterprise
flew patrols around the clock as the menace of the kamikaze increased. On 14
May 1945, she suffered her last wound of World War II when a suicide plane
destroyed her forward elevator, killing 14 and wounding 34 men. The carrier
sailed for repairs at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
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14 May 1945 explosion on the Enterprise from a bomb laden kamikaze aircraft |
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