An SH-3H Sea King helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 15 (HS-15) flies near the aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL (CV 59) and its battle group. The group is making for New York City, where it will participate in Fleet Week'89
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PHCM Dittmar, 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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Date
28/04/1989
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The U.S. National Archives
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