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USS Enterprise
Yankee Station 1971

A Tour
Take a photo tour of Enterprise as it
looked in late 1971. (14 pictures)

  
  

Aircraft
View some of the aircraft types deployed during the
Vietnam War. A few of them are still in use thirty
years later in the Middle East. (9 pictures)

  
  

Launch
Taking these photos is how I lost half the hearing
in my right ear, so you will take a look and
you will enjoy them. (12 pictures)

  
  

Recovery
What goes up comes down, and what goes out
often comes back and wants to land. Navy
pilots are funny that way. (12 pictures)

  
  

UnRep
Food, parts and jet fuel are transferred between
ships while at sea on station. Underway
replenishment. (13 pictures)

  
  

Spare Time
Here are a few things you can do in your spare
time if you're ever at sea. (5 pictures)

  
  

Liberty
I don't remember much about my first liberty at Subic
Bay, Philipines, but apparently I took a few photos
before losing consciousness. (10 pictures)

  
  

Enterprise in 2003
Still in action at age forty-two, here's what Enterprise
looks like today, as captured by Navy photographers
in November 2003 while on tour in the Arabian Sea
in support of operations in Iraq. (6 pictures)

  
   Enterprise Today

 
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