The Big E: the story of the USS Enterprise

Foreword to the illustrated edition

Foreword

Introduction

Book One. Peace

War

Guarding the islands

Into the South Seas

Back to Wake

Colonel Doolittle goes to Tokyo

Coral Sea cruise

Action off Midway

Book Two. Pearl and a mission to the south

First visit to an ugly island

The Eastern Solomons

Ordeal off Santa Cruz

The slot

Espiritu, Noumea, and Chicago

Book Three. Intermission

Makin and the Marshalls

First steps west

Penetration to Palau

A month in the Marianas

Foray to the Philippines

Leyte in the fall

Hunters in the dark

Return to Japan

Tomi Zai

Epilogue

Chronological order of events, USS Enterprise

Commanding officers of USS Enterprise

Air groups and their commanders embarked in USS Enterprise during World War II

Battle stars awarded USS Enterprise.