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Lieutenant Commander James A. Gessler, senior medical officer, comforts a smoke-inhalation victim following a fire in a berthing compartment aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62)

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Lieutenant Commander James A. Gessler, senior medical officer, comforts a smoke-inhalation victim following a fire in a berthing compartment aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62)

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Country: Caribbean Sea

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN J. F. Knowles

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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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28/03/1979
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