U.S. Navy Sailors move pallets of supplies for storage in the hangar bay of the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during operations in the Pacific Ocean on July 9, 2006. Currently underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, KITTY HAWK demonstrates power projection and sea control as the U.S. Navy's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Adam York) (Released)
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Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Scene Camera Operator: MCS Adam York, 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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09/07/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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