2012-9-6 · And then there was one patched-up carrier." Rear Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid. For Enterprise, 1942 began much as 1941 had ended, as she patrolled the western approaches to the Hawaiian islands and periodically returned to Pearl Harbor for supplies, frustrating both brown shoes and bluejackets alike.. By the close of 1942, however, Enterprise was battered and barely seaworthy, her men exhausted ...