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US Navy (USN) Rainbow Sideboys render honors as Secretary of the Navy, Gordon R. England, passes through prior to his departure from the Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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US Navy (USN) Rainbow Sideboys render honors as Secretary of the Navy, Gordon R. England, passes through prior to his departure from the Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Rex Nelson, 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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20/05/2004
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The U.S. National Archives
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