USS Enterprise Unboxing | Trumpeter | #askHearns

Published 19 February 2021 BJ opens the box of the new Trumpeter 1/200 USS Enterprise CV-6 aircraft carrier kit. This is an impressive kit of a massive aircraft carrier with plenty of fine parts for detail and heaps of photo-etched parts. 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. These actions included the attack on Pearl Harbor — 18 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers of her Air Group arrived over the harbor during the attack; seven were shot down with eight airmen killed and two wounded, making her the only American aircraft carrie