A US Navy (USN) Catapult and Arresting Gear Officer launches a E-2C Hawkeye aircraft assigned to Airborne Early Warning Squadron One One Two (VAW-112) from the flight deck of the USN NIMITZ CLASS: Aircraft Carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70), during a deployment training mission being conducted in the Pacific Ocean
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Inez Lawson, 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
07/02/2003
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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