A view of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41) as crewmen work to recover a damaged F-4J Phantom II aircraft hanging off the side of the ship. The damage resulted from a collision between the MIDWAY and the Panamanian freighter CACTUS
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Base: USS Midway (CV 41)
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
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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