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An E-2C Hawkeye aircraft from the "Bluetails" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Two One (VAW-121) launches from catapult number three on board the US Navys nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), during ongoing flight operations over Bosnia and Herzegovina. George Washington, commanded by US Navy Captain Malcolm P. Branch, is on a scheduled six-month deployment to the Mediterranean, and has been operating in the Adriatic Sea in support of the NATO-led Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR

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An E-2C Hawkeye aircraft from the "Bluetails" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Two One (VAW-121) launches from catapult number three on board the US Navys nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), during ongoing flight operations over Bosnia and Herzegovina. George Washington, commanded by US Navy Captain Malcolm P. Branch, is on a scheduled six-month deployment to the Mediterranean, and has been operating in the Adriatic Sea in support of the NATO-led Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR

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Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR

Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)

Country: Adriatic Sea

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Chris Vickers, USN

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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15/02/1996
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