Thank you, Little Hawk, for the additional information on the Enterprise (World War II version.)

I was born at the tag end of 1949, so while World War II was a central event in the lives of my parents and other older family members, it was only a peripheral event to me. My uncle was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, but neither he nor any other family member has ever told much in the way of "war stories", at least not in my hearing. I've picked up some World War II history over the years (much of it from movies!), but I've never made a systematic study of the war. Perhaps that makes me a "typical American" (said with a sneer), and thus ties this into the topic of this thread!

As I'm sure you guessed, I was interpreting "famous" in the sense of "having fame" or "well known". I was *not* interpreting it in the sense of "deserving of fame", "important", or "successful in battle".

c.d.