Sailors search for their next tasks on the flight deck of the Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier, USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) as steam from the ship's catapult pours over the deck after an F/A-18A launch in the Persian Gulf as part of Southwest Asia
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Independence (CV 62)
Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Charles Neff, USN
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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Date
03/03/1998
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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