USS Enterprise CV-6
The Most Decorated Ship of the Second World War

Sailors from Saratoga CV-3 (in background) look on as Enterprise pulls out of her Alameda berth, 18 September 1945. Less than a year later, on 25 July 1946, Saratoga was sunk by atomic bomb testing at Bikini Atoll, leaving Enterprise and Ranger CV-4 as the last two surviving pre-war carriers in the US Navy.