Name: Japan's Last Stand (Part 2) | Battle 360 | History
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NARRATOR: On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe is over.

The Nazi menace has been put to rest, and people across America

But in the Pacific, there is no end in sight.

For the round-the-clock warriors of the Big E,

We'd come back in about 5:30 and about 6 o'clock or so.

We'd crawl in our bunks and we'd get some sleep.

Enterprise keeps turning, bringing her guns into play.

the Zero rolls left, turns upside down, and perfect,

elegantly dives straight down into the ship's number

The largest explosion in the ship's storied history

Five decks below, the Zero's 500-pound bomb

goes off with such power that the entire flight elevator

A photograph taken from the nearby USS Washington

captures the astonishing moment where the explosive power

of a single kamikaze rockets a 15 ton elevator

The ship lists with holes blasted in the hull.

As the wounded giant limps off the battlefield,

With a missing flight elevator and a buckled deck,

launching and landing planes is impossible.

She's an aircraft carrier who can't launch aircraft.

has survived multiple attacks from air, sea,

It took just one pilot with suicidal intent

could never do, take Enterprise out of the war.

The wounded Enterprise must return home for repairs,

not just at Pearl Harbor but to the States--

PEDRO SANDOVAL: That was the end of the war for us.

We hated to leave because the war was still going on,

but we could not operate, not the condition of the ship.

NARRATOR: Enterprise is still in dry dock in August

Lloyd and I went into a bar in Bremerton to have a beer,

and somebody came running in and said the war's over.

And I'll tell you, it was a great feeling.

NARRATOR: In Tokyo, representatives of the emperor

signed the unconditional surrender on the deck

On the day of the surrender, kamikaze Admiral Onishi

The men of Enterprise breathe a sigh of relief,

The story of USS Enterprise is the story of World War II,

But Enterprise's heroic actions were simply a reflection

of a generation who literally saved our nation

ARTHUR KROPP: I didn't see any glamour in it at all.

ALAN PIETRUSZEWSKI: You know, if it wasn't for those guys,

We climbed on the backs of their sacrifice.

And without the sacrifices that they made,

NARRATOR: USS Enterprise was one of the greatest weapons

in the arsenal of democracy, a fierce and deadly

machine whose purpose was to win a devastating war.

But to her men, the Big E was less of a weapon than a home.

It was like a big mother hen or something to me.

You know, you'd go out on 300-mile searches

and come back, and here's the little beacon flickering.

And you'd hone in on that beacon and get back aboard.

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