A Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) F-14A Tomcat aircraft lights its afterburners as it prepares for an early evening takeoff on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV 66) during Operation Desert Storm.
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Country: Persian Gulf
Scene Camera Operator: LCDR Ken Neubauer
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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