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

Fighting Twenty pilots man their F6F Hellcats prior to launch from Enterprise CV-6, 15 October 1944.

These pilots' mission may have been defending the task force from one of several large Japanese aerial attacks received that day. VF-20 pilots shot down 38 Japanese planes that day, in exchange for two Hellcats and the loss of one pilot.