An environmental shot of the Military Sealift Command Fleet Replenishment Oiler USNS JOHN LENTHALL (TAO 189) from below the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Nimitz Class Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) on Jan. 31, 2007, during a refueling at sea mission somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. (U. S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Travis Alston) (RELEASED)
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Base: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69
Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)
Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Travis Alston, 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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