On January 14, , an accident involving an F-4 "Phantom" on her flight deck resulted on 27 Sailors killed and injured. After repairs, Enterprise continued to serve off Vietnam until and assisted in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, in April She was redesignated back to CVN the following year. Deployed mainly in the Pacific and Indian oceans during the late s and early s, she entered the Mediterranean in April to assist in Operation El Dorado Canyon, the bombing of Libya.
In , she successfully attacked Iraqi targets in Operation Desert Fox. To assist in the war against terrorism, she participated, beginning in , in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and underwent further refurbishments and deployments until deactived in Enterprise was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on February 3, , and is currently awaiting nuclear recycling.
This model is temporarily removed for future display in the "Navy in the Nuclear Age" exhibit in the north end of the Cold War Gallery. Ford class will be named Enterprise, so the name will live on and removed the fuel from the eight Westinghouse A2W nuclear reactors in This caused the Navy to put a pause on disposal while it sought out cheaper options. Today the stripped-down hull of the Enterprise sits in Newport News, Virginia awaiting its fate.
The first is to have the Navy manage the job but let the commercial industry do the non-nuclear work. The Navy would allow industry to scrap the non-nuclear parts of the ship but preserve a 27,ton propulsion space containing the reactors.
The propulsion space would then be transported to Puget Sound Naval Base, where the reactors would be removed and sent to Hanford. The second option: let commercial industry do everything, with a reactor storage location to be determined. In either event, most of the ship gets turned into razor blades and flatware.
The GAO report paints the commercial option as faster and cheaper, though there are a number of unknowns. Japan" - which spoke of the ship's precarious situation and the tenacity of her crewman. Following the war, efforts were made to preserve the Enterprise but the ship was eventually sold for scrap to the Lipsett Corporation in The dismantling of the ship was directed by River Vale resident, Henry Hoffmann. Hoffmann brought the stern plate of the ship to the township. In , the Library Board of Trustees decided to officially establish an Enterprise Collection that would include information from Big E veterans and memorabilia from the association.
Confidential Mail Yeoman on the Enterprise, Willard Bill Norberg, provided the library with extensive information on life aboard the Enterprise during wartime.
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