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An aerial starboard quarter view of the guided missile destroyer USS LYNDE MCCORMICK (DDG-8) returning to San Diego from a Western Pacific (WESTPAC) cruise with the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61)

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An aerial starboard quarter view of the guided missile destroyer USS LYNDE MCCORMICK (DDG-8) returning to San Diego from a Western Pacific (WESTPAC) cruise with the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61)

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Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PHC O'Connor

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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29/03/1983
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The U.S. National Archives
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