A Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 30 (VRC-30) C-2 Greyhound aircraft stands on the No. 3 catapult as wind causes vapor from the catapult to form an arch following the launch of an aircraft from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72)
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery
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
21/10/1990
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The U.S. National Archives
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