The animation is combined with documentary footage, interviews of Enterprise crew members and military historians, and voice-over narration.

Military historians providing commentary included Alan Pietruszewski, First Sergeant William Bodette,[2] Martin K. A. Morgan, Jonathan Parshall, and producer and story editor Samuel K. Dolan.

At the time, that was the second-highest viewer total for a History channel series premiere, behind Ice Road Truckers.

Among the ship's surviving crew interviewed for the series are Yeoman Willard Norberg, Roy E. Blood (1918–2015), Jack Glass, Arnold Olson and James Barnhill.

Members of the ship's Marine Detachment are also interviewed including Louis Michot, Jack Maroney, Frank Graves, Richard Harte, Walter Keil and George E. Lanvermeier, Sr.