Japan celebrated sinking her three separate times, and each time she sailed back into the fight. This episode is a biography of a machine: the USS Enterprise, CV-6, the most decorated American ship of World War II and the only Yorktown-class carrier to survive the war. We start with her glamorous peacetime years as a Hollywood film set and follow the storm that kept her 200 miles from Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when her scout planes flew straight into the Japanese attack.

From there we trace her through the five decisive minutes at Midway, the bomb hits at Santa Cruz that left her the only functioning American carrier in the Pacific, and the 75 Seabees who repaired her jammed elevator while she steamed into combat. We cover her overhaul at Puget Sound, her pioneering night radar operations, her role in sinking the battleship Musashi, ...