USS Enterprise (CV-6) was commissioned on 12 May 1938. On 4 June, attacks by her two SBD Dauntless dive-bomber squadrons (Bombing Squadron 6 (VB-6) and Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6)) against IJN Akagi, IJN Kaga, and IJN Hiryu (assisted by Yorktown’s V
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