Members of a catapult crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41) attach a launching bridle to the undercarriage of an aircraft during CINCPAC Exercise FLEETEX '83. The US Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and the Canadian navy are participating in the exercise near the Aleutian Islands of Alaska
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Subject Operation/Series: FLEETEX '83
Base: USS Midway (CV 41)
Country: Northern Pacific Ocean
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 David B. Loveall
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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