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A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter hovers over the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) as a hookup man reaches with a pole pendant for the helicopter's cargo hook to attach a load of empty ammunition crates. The fast combat support ship USS DETROIT (AOE-4) is in the background. The ships are in the Red Sea to support Operation Desert Storm

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A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter hovers over the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) as a hookup man reaches with a pole pendant for the helicopter's cargo hook to attach a load of empty ammunition crates. The fast combat support ship USS DETROIT (AOE-4) is in the background. The ships are in the Red Sea to support Operation Desert Storm

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Red Sea

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Charles W. Moore

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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01/02/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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