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ABOARD USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (Mar. 26, 2000) Lieutenant Commander David L. Holloway of the Navy Chaplain Corps conducts a Roman Catholic mass in the foc'sle aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Truman is conducting an Operational Reactor Safeguard Examination off the U.S. Atlantic Coast. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Justin Bane. File# 000326-N-6910B-501
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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