A bow view of the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV 60) underway in heavy seas while en route to the Mediterranean Sea. The guided missile frigate USS SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON (FFG 13) is off the carrier's starboard side
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Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Lance Hilley
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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Date
07/04/1984
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The U.S. National Archives
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