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A starboard side view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) underway off the Virginia Capes after departing Norfolk to take part in the joint special operation known as Fleet Exercise 2-94

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A starboard side view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) underway off the Virginia Capes after departing Norfolk to take part in the joint special operation known as Fleet Exercise 2-94

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Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EXERCISE 2-94

Base: USS George Washington @@(Cvn 73)

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: JOC Gregg L. 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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06/04/1994
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The U.S. National Archives
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