Tour

Here are some shots taken in 1971 from various vantage points around the ship.	The view forward from the Admiral's deck. Notice how shiny and polished everything is.
The view aft from the O13 level of the island.	The view from the stern looking forward.
One of four elevators moves aircraft from the flight deck to the hangar deck and back.	This passageway runs fore and aft just under the flight deck and is so long, there was always someone walking in it. I had to wait twenty minutes for this shot--even at 1 am.
Looking aft from the bow.	A row of A7's sits idle in the Indian Ocean. Enterprise was sent there for sixty days during the Indo-Pakistani war in late 1971.
It was always a comforting sight to see one of our escorts watching over us.	Marine helicoptors from the USS Iwo Jima make a supply run between carriers. The Marines came with us to the Indian Ocean.
A whole cabinet of semaphore flags.	When Enterprise gets moving, the wake is truly enormous, at least twice the width of the hull.
Two of these "prongs" extend beyond the bow, housing the end of the forward catapults. Only an idiot would climb out on them while the ship was underway.	Like an idiot, I climbed out on one for a shot of the bow, visible all the way to the tip in the clear water of the Indian Ocean.