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FYI This looks like a copy of a Gil Elvgren Paintings. This can be found at www.arts-wallpapers.com/galleries/GilElvgren/imagepages/i....

This is the USS Enterprise (CV-6) on October 26, 1942, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
See:
www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/cv6-a.htm

Photo #: 80-G-20989 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942 U.S. Navy ships firing at attacking Japanese carrier aircraft during the battle, 26 October 1942. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is at left, with at least two enemy planes visible overhead. In the right center is USS South Dakota, firing her starboard 5"/38 secondary battery, as marked by the bright flash amidships. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. Thanks, TVL1970!

Swede is somewhere up there, tangling with a flight of Vals by himself and destroying five in a matter of less than a minute. At the time, they called this "The USS Enterprise vs the Imperial Japanese Navy" because she was the only carrier we had operating in the Pacific at the time - the rest were sunk or out of action.

Bacolod Airfield