Wow! What a great subject. I knew the moment I saw "CV6" that it had to be a thread about the Enterprise, the most decorated aircraft carrier of the war. Only the Enterprise and the Saratoga survived out of the big 6 carriers the USA had when the war began. That ship should never have been scrapped, but should have been preserved, and never mind the cost.

The Japanese battleship Nagato and the German cruiser Prinz Eugen should also have been preserved, but there was never any chance of that happening. Ships on the losing side do not get preserved after a war. On the British side, they should have preserved the battleship Warspite. Alas, they are all gone.