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Close-in aerial view, from the port side, of a section of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) aft of the former island section during the late stages of the ship being scrapped out at the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company

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Close-in aerial view, from the port side, of a section of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) aft of the former island section during the late stages of the ship being scrapped out at the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Baltimore Harbor

State: Maryland (MD)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Don Montgomery USN (Ret.)

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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01/09/1997
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The U.S. National Archives
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