    
Title: USS Enterprise, December, 1941 Description: One of the twelve Grumman fighters (4F4-3 Wildcats) being delivered to Wake Island by the USS Enterprise (CV-6) rides the elevator to the flight deck (note collapsible wings allowing for storage and movement in confining areas), where it and the rest of Squadron 211 took off from the carrier to land at the narrow landing strip of Peacock Point on Wake Island; all of the Grumman fighters would be destroyed either on the ground at Wake on in the air above it in combat with overwhelming Japanese bombers and fighters that repeatedly attacked the tiny garrison for more than two weeks, December 8-23, 1941; Date: December 4, 1941 Category: World War II Keywords: aviation, fighter planes, Second World War, U.S. aircraft carriers, U.S. Navy, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1770 x 1035 (1.83 MPixels) (1.71) Print Size: 15.0 x 8.8 cm; 5.9 x 3.5 inches File Size: 5.25 MB (5,504,356 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010127 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
