page_title: USS Enterprise (CV-6)
section_title: After the war
hierarchical_section_title: USS Enterprise (CV-6) / Service history / After the war
caption_attribution_description: English: Returning veterans of the Pacific fill the hangar deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) as it stopped in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, preparatory to moving to the United States. Enterprise sailed to Pearl Harbor in late August 1945, returning to the States with some 1,141 servicemen due for discharge, including hospital patients and former prisoners-of-war. She then sailed on to New York on 25 September 1945 via the Panama Canal arriving on 17 October 1945. From November 1945 to January 1946, she transported returning servicemen from Europe.
context_page_description: USS Enterprise (CV-6), often called the "Big E," was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was also the seventh U.S. Navy ship to use the name. She was launched in 1936 and was a Yorktown class aircraft carrier. She was one of three American carriers brought into service before World War II which survived the war. She took part in more fights against Japan than any other U.S. ship. These fights included the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, many other fights during the Guadalcanal campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. At three different times during the Pacific War, the Japanese said that she had been sunk in battle. This lead her to be nicknamed "The Grey Ghost".
  Enterprise earned 20 battle stars. This was more than any other U.S. warship in World War II. Some have said that she is the most glorious and honored ship in the history of the United States Navy. However, the 18th century frigate USS ''Constitution'' could perhaps rival that.
caption: U.S. soldiers on Enterprise in 1945
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