War Factories | Season 3, Episode 2: Enterprise - Rise of the Aircraft Carrier | FD History

This doesn't really give the extraordinary nature of Midway justice. But I get it, the film is not really about battles as much as it is situational juxtaposition with respect to manufacturing capacity.

Starting with the Nimitz class, a naming convention for our aircraft carriers has been in place. They are all named after people. Names such as Saratoga, Ticonderoga, Yorktown, Hornet and Lexington were carried on, buy they were all given to smaller ships so that the carriers could all follow the new naming convention.

They made one exception with the Nimitz Class: CVN 65, USS Enterprise.

Now we have moved on to the Ford Class. All of the ships built and planned in the Ford class are also named after people...with one exception: CVN 80, USS Enterprise, whose Keel was laid in 2017.

That, my friends, is RESPECT!

The thing is - there were Japanese who KNEW they couldn't win - including Yamamoto.

John Toland's The Rising Sun has a description of the process by which Japan destroyed itself.

The thing was - they had made a decision in 1870 to avoid becoming a Colony - by becoming a Colonial Power. They even took on the Russians - and demonstrated that they were the equal of the Colonial Powers.

So - they had this idea - that if they ever backed down to a Colonial Power - they were on the Slippery Slope to becoming a Colony.

They went to war with China and were burning oil they got from the USA when they raped Nanking. The Americans decided they weren't going to continue to sell oil to Japan to rape China with - and demanded that they pull back in China.

Now - they were at it. The Decision. They KNEW that if they took on the US (and the UK and The Netherlands too) that they would be destroyed. THEY KNEW THAT .

But - they saw it as a decision whether to become a colony or be destroyed - and decided to go down fighting.

During this process one Japanese government after the other tried to deal with this decision - become a Colony - or Be Destroyed. Under pressure from more strident Nationalists - they threw up their hands and said in effect - "All right - YOU do it."

Then - once they were in power - this group was faced with the decision - Become a Colony - or Be Destroyed - while under pressure from those who were more radical than they were. Then - they too would throw up their hands and say - "All right - YOU do it."

When they got to Tojo - he did.

Oh ... and as for Today ... China had one ship yard that had more capacity than all of the US Shipyards put together. - and that is not it's only shipyard. We are not the industrial power we were in the 1930's.
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Could you imagine being one of the workers that spent 5 years building that last Japanese carrier , just to have it sink on its very first voyage .. they essentially just threw away 5 years of their lives just to watch the ship be loaded up with people and sink, killing them all for no reason whatsoever

since the inception of the MIRV, I’ve always considered carrier air groups to be worthless. they are not fast enough to dodge multiple inbound reentry vehicles.

Let us hope history never forgets the name, Enterprise

Lol, taking out that plane with a handgun, is like shooting a bullet with another bullet, whilst bother parties firing are moving lol

Is it “keto” butai, or “Kira” butai? Lol

Honestly, it just occurred to me that a good way to take out the hundreds of aircraft swarming your carrier , would be to bring all personnel inside the ship, and release a massive cloud of CO2 (CO2 naturally displaces air) to choke the engines of any fighter that comes in proximity to said ship , and watch them drop out of the sky like flies lol

sounded very interesting, but unwatchable, I made it 10 minutes in and suffered thru 15 minutes of ads

As long as there is a ship named Enteprise, Evil shall never conque and Freedom shall never die. It must have been a sight to see and its a shame that she couldn't be preserved. Luckily she is preserved in other ways.

Something that this aircraft carrier episode doesn't talk about is Kaiser escort carriers that helped out at leyte gulf and other battles. The smaller escourt carriers also helped the essex class and the enterprise for a bigger carrier force. What your opinion?

Aircraft carrier air groups are obsolete when a MIRV can nuke the section of the ocean they are in. They are not fast enough.

Alexander I would love to wake up beside you. That would be HISTORY….

'Get there firstest with the mostest.'

Good luck getting anything like this from the generation of fairies on the rise now.

The USS Midway was my home for almost 5 years. Best years of my life.

Yep, about the same with the war between Russia and ukraine. Ukraine does not have the numbers over russia

Wasn't the factories that lost the war for Japan. They continued to loose experienced pilots snowballing downhill

Braking the Japanese codes in 1942 the battle of Midway was a big factor that must be remembered.

Don’t forget Captain Kirk & the Enterprise.

This series is really great! ✨👏🏼😎✨

A country survives all of this, then gets taken down by one orange Thug. How soon we forget...

A Hollywood producer should wake up and make a movie about Enterprise.

Japan did this thing where they would try to get us to the bargaining table by inflicting mass casualties

You would think with all the trade we do with China that we would be friends I don’t understand

I like your informative documentaries however I wish you would pick one person to tell the story. The bouncing back and forth between speakers, all trying to be more animated than the others, is like being back in first grade during reading hour.

I imagine and hope she's got a Cute chubby kitty too

The American carriers have wooden flight decks which the British did not.

Jon Parshall and Tony Tully in their book "Shattered Sword" they proved that other than a handful of CAP fighters there were no planes on the decks of the Jap carriers at the time they were attacked, they were all below in the hangers getting their ordnance switched out.

Alexandra Churchill, DEI hire.

The greatest generation built over 100 carriers of all classes in 3.5 years. + 500,000 planes + tanks+ jeeps, 60,000 Packard merlin engine's.and HenryFord built for both sides..., 3.5 years!!.................. we can't build little s#!++/ ships in 15 that aren't over budget and better off as artificial reefs...btw how many fkt - 35s are operational on a daily basis??

Enterprise vs Japan! 👍💪👊

The interview clips in these types of documentaries ruins it for me. It would be better if it were just a narrator. I’m sick of hearing from the same six historians over and over.

I'm wondering if Alexandra Churchill is a distant relative of the prime minister

Being a first generation Trekker, needless to say I love the Big E! VERY proud Navy mom, too, I was hoping my son would get CVN-65 but no such luck. He was on a frigate with the Nimitz battlegroup. But he and I went onboard the Enterprise when she was docked in Seattle one year, and it was magical! LOL, I'm sitting here tearing up as I learn about her predecessor, CV-6 :)

Fun Fact: The banners on the gangways said "Fleet Starship"!

The aircraft carrier became obsolete when Japan surrendered. Now a dinosaur that is a missile magnet. 😎 Remember the carrier is at the center of 8-10 support ships that have zero offensive power.

I love how throughout the war, you almost never hear anything about the USS Saratoga ! She seemed to be cursed by bad luck the whole war.

$11 billion for an aircraft carrier. What do you value defeat & subjugation at ??? 😳😳😳

And in ten years time you will be talking about how WW3 triggered the obsolescence of aircraft carriers.

When I think of American Might I think of all of what we produced when we ramped up war production. Not just Aircraft Carriers! The first thing I think of are the workers being organized to produce what we needed to produce in every aspect of war machines.. Just like American-educated, Isoroku Yamamoto said, " We have awoken a sleeping Giant."

This is another reason why we need to maintain a BIG GOVERNMENT in case we run into another conflict like WWII! Big Government is essential in maintaining a level of control to consolidate the American war machine if need be in the future.....All this massive production effort was done under a LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!

In the 80's and early 90's my father-in-law was a SeaBea on Tinian Island. The groups of SeaBea's he worked with met every other year in Clackamas, Oregon during the annual Portland Rose Parade. I was fortunate enough to be able to go into the meeting room of the hotel where they stayed and just sit and listen to them reminiss about their time on Tinian. I don't remember much, but I learned that supplies were at times scarce and they told stories of diving on the sunken Japanese ships to recover brass and other materials they would then refashon to make parts to keep planes and other equipment functioning. I also heard stories of planes returning from missions that were damaged and crashing on the runways. In some cases exploding and sending shrapnel in many directions. In one case a sheet of skin cut the seat of the grader my father-in-law was running in half. He jumped out just in time to be missed by the flying metal.

It’s pronounced “CHING DOW” and it’s spelled “QINGDAO” Tsingtao is the beer that’s still made there in the TSINGTAO BREWERY, built by the Germans in 1903, Tsingtao is the German spelling of Qingdao, my wife and daughter were born there, beautiful city and great beer!!!🍺🍻🍺🍺

They should take a modern-ish aircraft carrier that's ready to be decommissioned and stand her on her "fantail" or "after deck" or whatever it's called in a carrier. That would look so cool, like she's ready to be launched into space. I suppose the contrary stresses on her frame/hull would collapse her, but it's still a cool thought. Just imagine it...

USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name. Colloquially called "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Launched in 1936, she was one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other United States ship. And welcome to Episode 2 of War Factories!