An aerial starboard quarter view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) underway off the Virginia Capes en route to take part in a joint special operation with the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force to be called Fleet Exercise 2-94
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: JOC Gregg L. Snaza
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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quarter view
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virginia
capes
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operation
army
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fleet exercise
atlantic ocean
united states ships
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starboard quarter view
nuclear powered
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ship exterior
us army
uss george washington cvn 73
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joc gregg
george washington
us national archives
Date
06/04/1994
in collections
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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