Electronics Technician Seaman Jesse Fudge, from Olivete, Michigan, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), cleans a headstone at the Rhone American Cemetery in Draguignan, France, April 28, 2019.
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DRAGUIGNAN, France (Apr. 28, 2019) Electronics Technician Seaman Jesse Fudge, from Olivete, Michigan, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), cleans a headstone at the Rhone American Cemetery in Draguignan, France, April 28, 2019. During a visit to the cemetery, Sailors from the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group (JCSCSG) attended a tour and cleaned headstones, remembering the 860 American service members buried there who lost their lives during the liberation of southern France in 1944. The JCSCSG is deployed in support of maritime security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Lowell Whitman/Released) File# 190428-N-HA376-0009
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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