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Sailors and participants in Tiger Cruise 2008 take pictures as aircraft fly in formation above the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jun. 03, 2008) Sailors and participants in Tiger Cruise 2008 take pictures as aircraft fly in formation above the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during an air power demonstration. Truman and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 are in the Atlantic Ocean preparing to return to homeport Norfolk Va., after a seven-month deployment in the Persian Gulf. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ricardo J. Reyes File# 080603-N-2984R-375
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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