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A crewman aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) watches as a Fighter Squadron 154 (VF-154) F-14A Tomcat aircraft climbs after launch during Operation Desert Shield

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A crewman aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) watches as a Fighter Squadron 154 (VF-154) F-14A Tomcat aircraft climbs after launch during Operation Desert Shield

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Country: Northern Arabian Sea

Scene Camera Operator: JO2(Sw) Joe Bartlett

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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01/01/1990
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The U.S. National Archives
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