A ground crew member signals the pilot of a Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 (VRC-40) C-2A Greyhound Carrier On-board Delivery (COD) aircraft as the plane prepares to take off with a load of passengers and mail bound for the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: JO2 (Sw) Joe Gawlowicz
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.
