CV-6 Enterprise
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Designed as an enlarged, speedier RANGER, this ship was authorized under the N.R.A. and completed in 1938. Resembles the new ESSEX design.
Observer's Note:
— Long, low island superstructure combined with heavy stack.
— Light tripod foremast with stick mainmast stepped abaft stack.
— Full-length flight deck, broken freeboard.
Source: FM 30-50, Recognition Pictorial Manual of Naval Vessels, 1943.