Aviation ordnancemen prepare to load ADM-141 tactical air-launched decoys onto aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67). The planes are being fitted for strikes on Iraqi targets at the onset of Operation Desert Storm
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Base: USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 William A. Lipski, 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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