A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) underway during the NATO Southern Region exercise DRAGON HAMMER '90. Underway behind the EISENHOWER are the Italian light aircraft carrier ITS GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI (C-551), left, and the Spanish aircraft carrier SPS PRINCIPE DE ASTURIAS (R-11)
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Subject Operation/Series: DRAGON HAMMER '90
Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 (Aw) Raymond H. Turner Ii
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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