An air-to-air right side view of an A-6 Intruder aircraft refueling an F-14 Tomcat aircraft as another F-14 flies nearby. The aircraft are assigned to the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66)
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)
Scene Camera Operator: Welch
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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Date
01/02/1982
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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