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Central Mediterranean Sea.  Members of the air transfer office and mail crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CV 43) load a Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 24 (VR-24) C-2A Greyhound aircraft with mail as the aircrew waits to board during operations near Libya

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Central Mediterranean Sea. Members of the air transfer office and mail crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CV 43) load a Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 24 (VR-24) C-2A Greyhound aircraft with mail as the aircrew waits to board during operations near Libya

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Base: USS Coral Sea (CV 43)

Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Attila Salman

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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16/03/1986
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The U.S. National Archives
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