An SBD Dauntless, the workhorse bomber of the Battle of Midway, landed on her flight deck. On January 16, 1942, just a little more than a month after Pearl Harbor, the seventh USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6) was steaming in the Pacific Ocean on her way to support the reinforcement of Somoa in the early days of our nation’s participation in World War II. Lawhon Leadership Award was presented to an outstanding chief petty officer. The Tripolitans had 20 killed the others made their escape by jumping overboard after the ship was afire.” This was labeled the “most daring act of the age” by the British Lord Nelson. “The business being so well planned, not a man was killed or wounded on our side. Decatur’s crew rowed out of the harbor and proceeded to report the destruction. “Each of the boarders knew his part well, and within 20 minutes, their firebrands had PHILADELPHIA blazing from stem to stern.” Evading shots from shore batteries and gunboats, Lt. The pilot explained they had lost their anchor in a storm and requested permission to moor alongside. Hiding the crew below decks, he navigated into Tripoli Harbor with a Maltese pilot’s assistance and approached the PHILADELPHIA. Decatur embarked in a captured 60-foot Maltese ketch, renamed her INTREPID, and manned her with a hand-picked crew of 83, including 75 ENTERPRISE sailors.
Surrounded by gunboats, it surrendered, and the Tripolitans later salvaged her on a flood tide. Decatur “repeatedly raked his opponent, and, without losing a man, finally forced her surrender with 50 of her crew of 84 killed or wounded.” On October 31, 1803, the PHILIDELPHIA, a 36-gun frigate, ran aground on an uncharted shoal while pursuing a small craft in Tripoli Harbor.
Tiny ENTERPRISE handed the Barbary pirates their first defeat against the better-armed ship, TRIPOLI. Stephen Decatur’s command, the third ENTERPRISE (a small, 12-gun clipper schooner) was deployed to the Mediterranean in 1801 as the smallest member of a four-ship squadron assigned to protect commerce from the Barbary States of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. The Stephen Decatur Leadership Award was presented to an outstanding junior officer. Holloway participated in the Washington, D.C., program for ENTERPRISE leadership award winners every year until his health prevented it. Navy encompassed combat in three wars and culminated in service as the 20 th chief of naval operations from 1974-1978. His 39 years of service on active duty in the U.S. Holloway III was the third commanding officer of the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65), serving from July 1965 through July 1967. Holloway III Leadership Award was presented to an outstanding senior officer. That action is consistent with the heroic service of CVN-65 and the previous seven ships to carry the ENTERPRISE name – all affectionately known by the nickname “Big E.” When the USS ENTERPRISE Leadership Awards for outstanding leaders on the USS ENTERPRISE were established, each award was named after an exceptional leader who served America on an ENTERPRISE-named ship:
Winnefeld immediately turned the ship around to be in position to launch the first air attacks against Al-Qaeda off the coast of Afghanistan days later. As the ship was returning home from a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf on September 11, 2001, news broke of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed over Pennsylvania. “Sandy” Winnefeld (USN, RET), who later served in many key national defense leadership positions, including vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The Stennis Center’s partnership with the USS ENTERPRISE began in 2000 when the ship was under the command of Adm. The ninth ship to carry the name, the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-80), is scheduled for completion in 2027. The eighth ship to bear the name, the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) aircraft carrier, was a part of the Stennis Center’s leadership awards program until her decommissioning in 2017. ENTERPRISE is a storied name in American military history, proudly borne by ships in service of the United States since the Revolutionary War.
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