F-14B Tomcats and F/A-18C Hornets from Carrier Air Wing One, fill the flight deck of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) while transiting the Suez Canal. Following a Presidential order to head for the Persian Gulf region, elements of the GEORGE WASHINGTON battle group led by the carrier immediately left their regularly scheduled station in the Mediterranean and began the 7 day passage to the Gulf, which starts with a Suez Canal transit. GEORGE WASHINGTON will join the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) battle group already on station. Both will enforce UN sanctions against Iraq by patrolling the No-Fly Zone. Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 16 ...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: F-14B Tomcats and F/A-18C Hornets from Carrier Air Wing One, fill the flight deck of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) while transiting the Suez Canal. Following a Presidential order to head for the Persian Gulf region, elements of the GEORGE WASHINGTON battle group led by the carrier immediately left their regularly scheduled station in the Mediterranean and began the 7 day passage to the Gulf, which starts with a Suez Canal transit. GEORGE WASHINGTON will join the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) battle group already on station. Both will enforce UN sanctions against Iraq by patrolling the No-Fly Zone. Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 16 November 1997.
Subject Operation/Series: SOTHERN WATCH
Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
State: Suez Canal
Country: Egypt (EGY)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Christopher Bishop, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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