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Enterprise CV-6 Receives Presidential Unit Citation
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz presents Enterprise CV-6 with the Presidential Unit Citation, May 1943.
Source: William T. Barr

Captain Samuel P. Ginder accepts the Presidential Unit Citation from Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz on behalf of Enterprise CV-6 and her men, 27 May 1943. Enterprise was the first carrier to receive this decoration, and the only carrier to receive both the Presidential Unit Citation and the Navy Unit Commendation (on 11 July 1946).


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