A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 (HC-11) HH-46D Sea Knight helicopter assigned to the replenishment oiler USS KANSAS CITY (AOR-3) passes the guided missile cruiser USS VALLEY FORGE (CG-50) as it carries a load of supplies to the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) during a vertical replenishment. The RANGER and its battle group are on station in the Persian Gulf region following Operation Desert Storm
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: JO1(Sw) Gregg Snaza
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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