1/72 USS Enterprise CV-6

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James Guard

Жыл бұрын

CV6 Naval Aviation Museum

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@skepticalobserver2135 Жыл бұрын

Such a historically important ship should NEVER have been scrapped in the 1950s but turned into a museum.

@Odyss2023 Жыл бұрын

This part a lot of people around the world don't understand. Why scrap the one of most victorious warship in human history.

@TowGunner Жыл бұрын

I remember reading that when the Navy announced they could no longer maintain Enterprise, The Enterprise CV 6 Association led by Admiral Halsey got congress to pass a resolution making Enterprise a national memorial. But the Association had to assume full financial responsibility and given only 6 months to raise I believe, 2 million dollars to move and preserve the ship. Being an impossibility, the Association struck a deal with the Navy. Scrap the big E but the first nuclear carrier had to be named Enterprise.

@skepticalobserver2135 Жыл бұрын

@@TowGunner Dereliction of duty on the part of Congress. It's not like leaving the Enterprise in dock was going to cost them 2 million over 6 months. What a disgrace.

@vanta_8lack591 Жыл бұрын

I heard that it also had to do with battle damage. CV 6 was basically only out of drydock with a bandaid slapped across a bullet wound. If you look at texas armor and her problems you can see how hard it would have been to maintain cv 6 as a museum. The armor acting as a delay for the corrosion of seawater. I believe that scrapping was not a good idea but given the circumstances I can understand it

@skepticalobserver2135 Жыл бұрын

@@vanta_8lack591 She could have been kept in a drydock. The USS Texas should be in a drydock too. So with the USS Olympia. The Fletcher-class destroyer in Boston, next to the USS Constitution, is kept in drydock.

@shannonchurchill4556 Жыл бұрын

As a lifelong scale model builder, and fan of all things USS Enterprise, both naval and “Federation” this is the holiest of Holy Grails, and I tip my hat to whomever created this amazing masterpiece.

@Hardrock1a Жыл бұрын

If I am not mistaken, I believe that this was created by a man by the name Bob Gunderson from Colorado. He served on her during WWII. He was a friend of my father’s. I know the one he made is in a museum, in Chino, Ca I think.

@jonathanbair523 Жыл бұрын

@@Hardrock1a Is there a way we can order this model? OMG would love to get one like this..

@Hardrock1a Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanbair523 I spoke with my father and he thinks this is Bob’s model. Bob passed away in 2005, so the likelihood of plans existing is small. We will attempt to contact his son to see if he has his father’s work. According to my father who saw it before donating it, there are model crates with engines in them on the hanger deck, so it is SUPER detailed. My belief is that the plans were never fully detailed.

@texascclp1445 Жыл бұрын

Having a sensory overload! That is the most detailed and realistic US Navy ship of any class i've ever seen. Thanks for sharing with us! As awesome as operating with full size carriers. USN 69-73 DD878

@jayh1734 Жыл бұрын

My dad was on dd 886

@g.meyers1008 Жыл бұрын

Uncle Jim built model ships like this when I was a kid. I guess they are in a New York museum now. Jim was an amazing craftsman. Jim once told me he had a stroke and had a transformation of his senses. He received a photographic memory from the stroke. Then he started building the ships he was on from memory. He could name every sailor he served with. He hand carved the sailors. I stayed the night at his house when I was very young and he would hand me a few hand carved sailors and tell me the story how he built the model ships. I think it haunted him to have such recall and detail. Several of the ships he was on sank. Jim was a fine craftsman and we miss him.

@MrSuzuki1187 Жыл бұрын

My father was a TBM pilot in Night Torpedo Squadron 90 on Enterprise as a member on the first ever squadron to fly low level attack missions from carriers at night and in bad weather. He flew the mission mentioned in the video as the first carrier strike on the Japanese home islands on the night of February 17, 1945. His mission that night was to search Tokyo Bay for ships, and if none were found in his assigned sector, his secondary target was an airfield on the Island of Hachijo Jima. Along with his wingman, he attacked the fighter strip with 500 pound bombs and strafed with .50 caliber machine gun fire. Everyone who served on Enterprise said the ship had a soul and was like a living being that the men loved dearly. The Enterprise sank at least 3 of the Japanese carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor.

@boomstick68 Жыл бұрын

That's is awesome. Thank you so much for that response. Those like your father are my heroes, and we are indebted to them for what they sacrificed. They are indeed my inspiration to build these great ships. Stay tuned to my channel, our will be documenting some future builds. Again, thank you for that awesome story and to your father for his service to our great nation.

@MrSuzuki1187 Жыл бұрын

@@boomstick68 Thanks James!! I will subscribe to your channel if I have not already done so. My father gave me the book the Big E, the story of Enterprise's history, in 1964 when I was 14 years old, and I have read it many times since then. But when he gave it to me, all he said was that the chapter about his squadron was called Hunters in The Dark, but never said what part he played. After his untimely death in 1971, I found a box of memorabilia from his WW II days and found his pilot log book. But in the log where it says "comments", there were none, because what his airgroup did was a secret! I then made it a life mission to figure our what he did on Enterprise and what a journey it has been! Me and my two older brothers followed our father and all became pilots. I flew for United for 29 years and currently fly a corporate plane. I know many intimate details about Enterprise and the war in the Pacific and am willing to share what I know with you. Maybe you could use that info for future KZfaq videos. Feel free contact me at Jturpin782@aol.com. What Night Airgroup 90 did flying from Enterprise was nothing less than amazing! And being a pilot, I can relate.

@BP-1988 Жыл бұрын

My father and especially his rear gunner owe their lives to the USS Enterprise. He was able to land his SBD on Enterprise after his carrier, USS Hornet (CV8) was hit by the Japanese during the battle of Santa Cruz in October of 1942. His gunner had been hit and was wounded by 20mm cannon fire from a Zero after he drop his bomb on the IJN carrier Shokaku. His gunner probably wouldn't have survived if he had to ditch near the Hornet.

@sandbridgekid4121 Жыл бұрын

The one US Navy Ship that should have been saved after WW2, my father was part of a project in high school in 1957,58 to raise money to make the Big E a museum ship, an effort led by Admiral Bull Halsey. Despite the funds being raised, and a location being selected for her permanent berthing, the Navy chose to scrap her next to the future nuclear Enterprise. What a loss. Saratoga and Enterprise were the ONLY prewar carriers to survive the Pacific Theater.

@ronlogan4743 Жыл бұрын

She should have been berthed alongside the USS Arizona and USS Missouri. Very instrumental in the defeat of the Japanese Empire.

@kommandantgalileo Жыл бұрын

Hey, at least her steel was used to build the next Enterprise

@sandbridgekid4121 Жыл бұрын

Very little steel.

@sandbridgekid4121 Жыл бұрын

The new nuclear Navy wanted no reminders of the prewar Washington Naval Treaty navy.

@kommandantgalileo Жыл бұрын

@@sandbridgekid4121 at least part of her still serves

@kennethwilson8633 Жыл бұрын

Definitely a great ship and worth every penny. Thank you to everyone that ever worked on or served with her.

@jeffburnham6611 Жыл бұрын

I know the Enterprise was some 215 miles west of Oahu that morning, returning from Wake Island. Those "planes in the air" the video mentioned were some of the 18 SBD's the carrier sent ahead, and by sheer coincidence ran right into the first wave of the Japanese attack. Seven of those planes were shot down (either by friendly or enemy fire) and they recorded one aerial victory.

@bradhammack7207 Жыл бұрын

The wife and I went to Pensacola for vacation a few years ago before the restriction for getting on base. As much as I enjoyed looking at the planes and other displays, I wanted to see and touch the Enterprise CV-6 artifacts. I thoroughly enjoyed them and getting to see this magnificent model too. She should have been saved and made a memorial museum herself for all to see and remember the sacrifices made to keep our freedom.

@joso5554 Жыл бұрын

A wonderful and spectacular model !! It makes me realize the crazy amount of defense guns all around the deck.

@vincentlefebvre9255 Жыл бұрын

One word: sensationnal ! 😳

@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P Жыл бұрын

I build 1/700 scale....... I Always dreamt of building a 1/72, I dream No More. Well Done to all that built this Legendary Ship!!

@vincentlefebvre9255 Жыл бұрын

I do have it in 1/700. Is yours the Academy one ?

@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P Жыл бұрын

@@vincentlefebvre9255 Hello, 'Vincent', sorry I got So Late to your reply, to answer your question, I do not have the CV-6.......yet, but I have seen that the Academy 1/700 USS ENTERPRISE CV-6 and it looks pretty good. Maybe I'll build CV-6 so that my IJN Kaga won't be too lonely.

@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin Жыл бұрын

Thanks my dad was the duty CPO on the Enterprise on Sunday December 7th and confirmed the attack and informed Adm Halsey.

@gregorykiernan7849 Жыл бұрын

And I'm sure his life radically changed that day! Bless him and Thanks for his service. ...his and all the brave men and woman of our Armed Forces! 🇺🇲

@martinwilhelm7652 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful modell...fantastic 😃

@timbarnett3898 Жыл бұрын

I just painted metal ammo box my brother gave me while he was a plane captain for F-4A fighter plane on Enterprise during Viet Nam. Once said he'd never been so tired an stimulated at the same time as his tour onboard Enterprise!

@03221955 Жыл бұрын

Check out the 1/72nd Aircraft Carrier model in the Patuxent Naval Aviation Museum, Lexington Park, MD.

@websterl.william106 Жыл бұрын

Lord this is amazing

@bobidit5886 Жыл бұрын

Just amazing!

@simpingcv6 Жыл бұрын

awesome!!! i've only ever built the 1/700 scale from academy and 1/200 from trumpeter. i wish i have the space for 1/72 enterprise...

@codecmgs Жыл бұрын

I live in NJ and took the 1.5 hour trip to pay my respects to the USS Enterprise nameplate and all those that served aboard her. The last piece of USS Enterprise CV-6 is located at the River Vale Public Library in River Vale, NJ. Touching that piece of Pennsylvania steel for the first time, I felt transported to a far away ocean where boys became men and men became veteran war dogs. It's sad 😔 that there is only that to remember her by. However, I was grateful there was something left of that blessed ship.

@jayh1734 Жыл бұрын

Her ships motto was from shakespear. My she say with just pride, I have done the state some service. This was the most important and historically relevant ship to ever serve in the US navy. Ever.

@r-e-n335 Жыл бұрын

The Grey Ghost Wow its so amazing

@stevenklinkhamer9069 Жыл бұрын

Splendid to say the least. A very impressive display model of a magnificent air craft carrier. A legendary vessel of the 2nd World War for sure

@weetak Жыл бұрын

why the US government did not preserve the Big E as a museum, i would never know

@P61guy61 Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you for posting

@lawrencequave7361 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful model! I wonder how many hundred people worked to build it, and how many thousand man/woman-hours it took.

@andrewmontgomery5621 Жыл бұрын

The Champion of both Eagle Union and the US navy

@fishbarbeque8540 Жыл бұрын

This is awesom!

@philRminiatures Жыл бұрын

Truly superb, impressive details!

@ditto1958 Жыл бұрын

Spectacular

@georgechatzistamatis7657 Жыл бұрын

Exellent work....Awesome model

@TheFlatlander440 Жыл бұрын

FYI: The original transom panel rescued from the scrap yard CV-6 "USS Enterprise" is located at Memorial Park in River Vale, NJ. They also have a small display in the library there dedicated to CV-6 USS Enterprise.

@tedcooper5377 Жыл бұрын

Spectacular 👍

@AntonioGarcia-kh4cl Жыл бұрын

very good job greetings from Spain

@Gudha_Ismintis Жыл бұрын

That is beautiful

@bruceking2068 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding!

@doncampbell3244 Жыл бұрын

Amazing 🤙

@paladin0654 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful model.

@allgood6760 Ай бұрын

There is so much work that goes into this! and there is a 1/72 nuclear USS Enterprise which exist as well 👍

@michaelsoland3293 Жыл бұрын

I like how there's just a Corsair there in front of the island

@vexic1643 Жыл бұрын

Probably used to include the Night Fighter Squadron she operated

@michaelsoland3293 Жыл бұрын

@@vexic1643 Looks like you're right, "Beginning in January of 1944, Air Group 10 onboard the USS Enterprise (CV 6) had a detachment of F4U-2N Corsairs from VF(N)-101. These Corsairs were equipped with the wing-mounted A1A radar. During this cruise, the Corsairs were successful in downing several Japanese night attackers. It was also during Operation Hailstone that VT-10 delivered its night attack on shipping in Truk Lagoon. Air Group 20 relieved Air Group 10 and came aboard the Enterprise before Operation Forager, the invasion of the Marianas Islands. A 4-plane detachment of F6F-3N Hellcats from VF(N)-78 accompanied this Air Group. For a period of about 4 months in 1944, the Enterprise operated Corsairs. While flown mainly at night, they also did perform CAP duties during the day."

@aaronnormanbigalbal7601 Жыл бұрын

Hey i love the F4U Corsair its my number 1 favorite american fighter

@petermoscone3115 Жыл бұрын

absolutely awesome..

@davidmccann9811 Жыл бұрын

I'm just waiting for someone to release a 1/72 kit of the Titanic. 😂🤣

@albertchiu655 Жыл бұрын

marvelous!

@jaymac7203 Жыл бұрын

Was that Chekov being chased across the deck yelling "Scotty beam me off the wessel"? Lol 😭🤣

@65tosspowertrapl36 6 ай бұрын

Magnificent!!!!!😊😊😊

@kommandantgalileo Жыл бұрын

I bet most of us are still pissed they scraped her.

@garykreitz2428 Жыл бұрын

I have a model of that ship it's 3ft. Long it toke me a year to put it together and paint everything up it cost 200 dollars

@walterheinen5298 Жыл бұрын

Super Cool.

@siler7 Жыл бұрын

Guys, I have just permanently solved the worldwide energy crisis. 1. Drive a shaft lengthwise through Jimmy Dolittle's grave. 2. Connect the shaft to a dynamo. 3. Play on a loop the part of this voiceover where it says "Participated in the first raid by carrier aircraft on the Japanese home islands in February 1945." 4. As General Dolittle spins in his grave, we will be provided with all the electricity we will ever need.

@DATo_DATonian Жыл бұрын

You are right. The men who flew that mission deserve better respect than this video is giving them.

@joeshmoe9978 Жыл бұрын

Now I want to see the NCC-1701 Enterprise in 1/72 😜

@alexandremarcelino7360 Жыл бұрын

Incrvel!!🌟

@user-ml8wy4my6k Жыл бұрын

凄いですね！見てみたい、ビッグE

@ricksadler797 Жыл бұрын

Very nice 👍 thank you

@davidmcleod7757 Жыл бұрын

fantastic and best detailed model I've ever seen where is it located?

@charlesphillips8635 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@captainobvious9233 Жыл бұрын

1:21 the U.S Emblem on one of the planes is .00000000001 nanometers out of place. You need to throw the model away and start over.

@pothpornchaiimongkon Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@williamscoggin1509 Жыл бұрын

Yes, these old pieces of American history, it would be nice to keep them around forever but the truth is anything that old it takes constant money because of the bottoms resting through. I got to spend a few weeks on the USS ranger and I'm so glad to have those memories. But it too is gone now. Here in Texas are battleship Texas got hauled away from Houston because it had been trying to just flat out sink for probably 20 years now all the bottom was so paper thin they had pumps going keeping the water out every time they fix a place another one would open. A lot of people hated to see it get moved out but most of the population in Houston these days don't have any connection with it and they couldn't keep enough money coming in to do a full restoration. Luckily some group down the coast I forget where came and got it and they are trying to restore it but it won't be in Houston ever again. I did get to go on it and take a lot of photos so before I left. If anyone is interested there's a place in Lufkin college the knife shop on Highway 69. He has a contract with the government and buys sheets of steel off of all the old naval vessels that they're going to scrap and he can make customized for you out of The Middle of whatever shit he has a piece up there. They're not cheap cuz he hand makes them and forges the metal but they are also a part of the history.

@erichbower9659 Жыл бұрын

Looks great! Where is this museum located at? Would like to see it. Thanks 😃👍

@boomstick68 Жыл бұрын

National Naval Aviation Museum NAS Pensacola

@boosuedon Жыл бұрын

If ever there was a ship that symbolized American tenacity, hands down it has to be the Big "E"! Enterprise v Japan! What balls!

@aa-is-78 Жыл бұрын

哇好酷

@joewoodchuck3824 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic model. What scale is it?

@4137fy Жыл бұрын

帥

@jameswentzkershawn001 Жыл бұрын

No Shot!!!

@able34bravo37 Жыл бұрын

It is an absolute crime against humanity that we don't have the real thing to look at. We've saved four Essexes guys. FOUR. I'd trade two Essexes (Essii?) four one Enterprise CV-6. Or CVN-65, for that matter.

@THE-michaelmyers Жыл бұрын

The last I heard the CVN-65 was still at the Newport News Shipbuilding. In fact, the last time I was in the area I could still see it. The Big E is to be stored here until the Navy decides who best to scrap it. As with the CV 6 the process for making it a museum seems to have failed. On this topic, my information is about 5 years old, but last I heard the CV-10 is in danger. The Navy has told the group that operates it at Charleston Harbor to fix some problems. This was going to be very expensive to do and I have not heard what has happened. In all honesty, I have a feeling this situation is why the CVN-65 did not become a museum.

@acarrillo8277 Жыл бұрын

CVN-65 can't become a museum for many reasons the least of which because it was nuclear powered, and not just by one reactor like the Nautilus, Big E had eight! That means huge sections of contaminated steel that have to be cut out from the ship. As many of those sections were structural, replacement structural pieces would have to be designed and fabricated. Also we didn't save the Forestall or the Kitty-hawk because they are both super-carriers and the design is not that different from the Nimitz or the Ford class so letting people walk around and study the ship is not in the interest of National Security. Not saving CV-6 was a tragedy though.

@albig8445 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@beegee22 Жыл бұрын

😮😮

@royarianto4617 Жыл бұрын

Where is it? What a great model..🤘😱😱

@Snailstolemysoul Жыл бұрын

National naval aviation museum Pensacola fl.

@royarianto4617 Жыл бұрын

@@Snailstolemysoul thx alot bro..for info..🤘🙏🙏

@Snailstolemysoul Жыл бұрын

@@royarianto4617 No prob

@robertfrost1683 Жыл бұрын

Sad that it is almost impossible for civilians to visit the Pensacola Naval Air Museum :(

@punyaslokmohapatra7528 Жыл бұрын

Why?

@TheKentucky777 Жыл бұрын

@@punyaslokmohapatra7528 currently only open to DOD ID holders. NAM used to have a waiver for that however it was lifted. Not sure when it will be reinstated.

@Zenilez Жыл бұрын

It's quite sad that they had to scrap her

@karlsangalang1623 Жыл бұрын

I fail to understand why she had to get scrapped. She won a lot of battles and clearly deserved the recognition.

@Zenilez Жыл бұрын

@@karlsangalang1623 they said they failed to raise money to maintain her

@simpingcv6 Жыл бұрын

yes, i also think it's sad that they had to scrap her. but on the other hand, i think it was for the best. she had gone through a lot during the war period. she survived a lot of battles. she received a lot of damages. and i think now she deserves her long, peaceful rest. also quoting from barrett tillman's book "enterprise - america's fightingest ship and the men who helped win world war ii", page 257 par 2: "Furthermore, a ship turned into a static museum cannot retain its character. Just as airplanes are craft of the air, ships are creatures of the sea, and both lose something of their essence when tethered to the ground." i imagined if she became a museum ship, she will be forever chained to the port, stripped from her freedom to sail to the ocean for the rest of her life. she can only see or hear her comrades going to places, while she can't anymore. she won't be alone at port, but i feel like it's still lonely... and sadder than getting scrapped and went to her eternal rest...

@Chilly_Billy Жыл бұрын

@@simpingcv6, I couldn't disagree more. History needs to be preserved and no other U.S. warship has ever embodied the fighting spirit and skill at naval arms as did CV-6. It is a national disgrace she was not saved for generations to appreciate firsthand.

@Zenilez Жыл бұрын

@@simpingcv6 yeah but I really wanted to see her in person but may she rest in peace also I also have that Christmas skin for enty🙂

@glennpruess6936 Жыл бұрын

Isn't this the one at the EAA museum in Oshkosh

@philipgaylor9307 Жыл бұрын

That F4U’s looking lonely 😕

@2exeexe Жыл бұрын

赤城や飛龍も作って欲しい I want you to make the aircraft carrier Akagi and Hiryu

@Pozer714 9 ай бұрын

Nice model, did,'t they need to chain them down? Don't see any chains or pad-eyes.

@johnchambers2996 Жыл бұрын

The bureaucrats scrapped this famous ship and saved something as banal as the Midway... real smart.

@libertyvilleguy2903 Жыл бұрын

Where is this model?

@kenblock5033 Жыл бұрын

Skratch built?

@robertotamesis1783 Жыл бұрын

So many people on deck🤔 Hmmm.

@weldermartins2715 Жыл бұрын

such a impressive model, all kind of details but no hull plating, that'a pitty.

@joaoluizguimaraesfranco282 Жыл бұрын

What is the scale? Congratulations!!!

@DATo_DATonian Жыл бұрын

In the title of the video it says one to seventy-two (1/72). I did a little research and found out that the actual ship was 809'6" long. If you divide this by 72 the model would be 11' 3" long.

@tim7052 Жыл бұрын

The scale is "1/72", which is a direct ratio between the model and the ship. This means that 1-inch of distance on the model equals 72-inches of distance on the real thing.