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Well-wishers holding balloons stand on the pier to bid farewell to the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) as the ship prepares to depart Yokosuka for the last time. The MIDWAY, which has been based in Japan since 1973, will be replaced by the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier

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Well-wishers holding balloons stand on the pier to bid farewell to the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) as the ship prepares to depart Yokosuka for the last time. The MIDWAY, which has been based in Japan since 1973, will be replaced by the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier

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Base: Naval Station, Yokosuka

Country: Japan(JPN)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Gordon J. Hanson

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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10/08/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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