The US Navy (USN) Commanding Officer (CO) of the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), Captain (CAPT) Ed McNamee, escorts Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) Vice Admiral (VADM) Tsutomo Tamura, president of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force STAFF College and renowned Japanese sword maker and Yoshi Yoshihara, around the flight deck
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Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Country: Japan (JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Juan A. King, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
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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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