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Rear Adm. Jerry L. Unruh, commander, Carrier Group 1, talks to media pool correspondents prior to a press conference aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62). The correspondents are covering Operation Desert Storm

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Rear Adm. Jerry L. Unruh, commander, Carrier Group 1, talks to media pool correspondents prior to a press conference aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62). The correspondents are covering Operation Desert Storm

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Country: Gulf Of Oman

Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Bartlett

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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01/08/1990
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