Pto CV(N)-6
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Old Tiger
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The ship designation system was modified to include the suffix "(N)" to identify ...
2, 1956 - USS Enterprise (CV 6) was ordered stricken from the Navy list.
USS Enterprise (CV-6), colloquially referred to as the "Big E", was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the seventh U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Launched in 1936, she was a ship of the Yorktown class, and one of only three American carriers commissioned prior to World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than did any other US ship. These actions included the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, various other air-sea engagements during the Guadalcanal campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as well as the "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo. On three separate occasions during the Pacific War, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle.
grizzly50
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Steve, you didn't say I couldn't respond. LOLCV(N)-6 is U.S.S. Enterprise. The (N) meant Night Operations, if I correctly recall, and was "the first fleet carrier ordered into, and capable of, around-the-clock warfare". Also,"at night, her planes would fly combat air patrols and launch strikes against the enemy; by day her flight deck was ready to receive planes and pilots too battered to return to their home carriers, to fly CAP missions during enemy attack and to provide fighter direction for the fleet".
Can't wait for this.:d
Edit: Old Tiger, looks ya beat me by a minute or two. LOL
Frosty
SOH-CM-2022
I found that the designations stand for the following:
CV = Aircraft Carrier
(N) = Nuclear powered
-6 = Enterprise
But I cannot see how these combine because I couldn't find that the WWII CV-6 Enterprise (Yorktown -class) was ever nuclear powered.
The CVN-65 Enterprise (Enterprise -class) was nuclear powered but is an entirely different ship that was launched in 1960.
EDIT: Hey Grizz, where 'd you find that 'N' designation? All I could find is Nuclear, not 'Night Operations' - though it makes sense too.
CV = Aircraft Carrier
(N) = Nuclear powered
-6 = Enterprise
But I cannot see how these combine because I couldn't find that the WWII CV-6 Enterprise (Yorktown -class) was ever nuclear powered.
The CVN-65 Enterprise (Enterprise -class) was nuclear powered but is an entirely different ship that was launched in 1960.
EDIT: Hey Grizz, where 'd you find that 'N' designation? All I could find is Nuclear, not 'Night Operations' - though it makes sense too.
grizzly50
Charter Member
Frosty, that's not CVN, it's CV(N). Big difference. Here's my quick source: http://www.cv6.org/1944/1944.htmWikipedia makes no mention of it at all.
There is also this: http://www.cv6.org/ship/logs/vtn90/default.htm
And this: http://www.cv6.org/ship/logs/vfn90/default.htm
http://www.cv6.org/company/airgroups.htm#nag90
http://books.google.com/books?id=mz...KnoawB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3:d
Frosty
SOH-CM-2022
Right you are Kasey,
The Enterprise was converted to a CV(N)-6 enabling her for night operations. She had a lighted flight deck with a single line of lights down the middle.
Her Avengers were equipped with radar and sank several hundred thousand tons of Japanese shipping. Her aircraft (Avengers and Hellcats)also conducted night raids on Japanese shore and coastal installations. They also did night intercepts.
This next PTO update will include everything the mission builders will need to build night carrier operations missions. The PTO aircraft will be updated with three types of flares and there will be a couple of new "Searchlight" destroyers and there will be searchlights and new AA to arm the Japanese shore installations.
The ships will also have the new golfball tracers installed. PTO will be a whole new experience.
Just in case you ever get a chance the History Channel has done a one hour program of the Historical operations conducted by the Enterprise CV(N)-6. I saw it again this afternoon and it is really a terrific program and features one of the pilots that flew the Avenger from the carrier during those night sorties.
Regards
O-1
The Enterprise was converted to a CV(N)-6 enabling her for night operations. She had a lighted flight deck with a single line of lights down the middle.
Her Avengers were equipped with radar and sank several hundred thousand tons of Japanese shipping. Her aircraft (Avengers and Hellcats)also conducted night raids on Japanese shore and coastal installations. They also did night intercepts.
This next PTO update will include everything the mission builders will need to build night carrier operations missions. The PTO aircraft will be updated with three types of flares and there will be a couple of new "Searchlight" destroyers and there will be searchlights and new AA to arm the Japanese shore installations.
The ships will also have the new golfball tracers installed. PTO will be a whole new experience.
Just in case you ever get a chance the History Channel has done a one hour program of the Historical operations conducted by the Enterprise CV(N)-6. I saw it again this afternoon and it is really a terrific program and features one of the pilots that flew the Avenger from the carrier during those night sorties.
Regards
O-1
Here is a little more info:
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"In the face of this threat, and with Japanese naval air power in ruins, U.S. carrier forces had three primary roles: providing air support for ground forces and landings, providing air defense for the fleet, and suppressing Japan's ground-based air forces. As a night carrier, carrying Night Air Group 90, Enterprise was particularly involved in the latter two missions.
Along with other carriers designated as night carriers - the light carrier Independence CVL-22, and Saratoga CV-3 - Enterprise defended the fleet from night bomber attacks, flew daytime combat air patrols, and launched nighttime strikes against enemy shipping and airfields. It was dangerous and exhausting work. Joe Hranek, crewman in Enterprise's VT(N)-90 recalls: "...I was never sure where we were until [the pilot] cut the engine and the deck lights suddenly appeared. All in all it was sheer terror."
Hey Al, I think we will separate the men from the Boys with a few Night carrier missions. Between the flak, searchlights and night carrier landings we should be able to "thin the herd".
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"In the face of this threat, and with Japanese naval air power in ruins, U.S. carrier forces had three primary roles: providing air support for ground forces and landings, providing air defense for the fleet, and suppressing Japan's ground-based air forces. As a night carrier, carrying Night Air Group 90, Enterprise was particularly involved in the latter two missions.
Along with other carriers designated as night carriers - the light carrier Independence CVL-22, and Saratoga CV-3 - Enterprise defended the fleet from night bomber attacks, flew daytime combat air patrols, and launched nighttime strikes against enemy shipping and airfields. It was dangerous and exhausting work. Joe Hranek, crewman in Enterprise's VT(N)-90 recalls: "...I was never sure where we were until [the pilot] cut the engine and the deck lights suddenly appeared. All in all it was sheer terror."
Hey Al, I think we will separate the men from the Boys with a few Night carrier missions. Between the flak, searchlights and night carrier landings we should be able to "thin the herd".
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redriver6
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i think Saratoga was the second fleet carrier for night ops..&..CVL Independence..
grizzly50
Charter Member
Talon,1. The second fleet carrier to be designated for Night Operations was U.S.S. Saratoga (CV-3) and Air Group 53.
2. The Light Carrier designated for Night Operations was U.S.S. Independence (CVL-22).
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