An aerial view of the Aircraft Carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64) underway with its battle group
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Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Heuser, 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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aircraft
carrier
aircraft carrier uss constellation
battle
group
united states ships
us navy ships
aerial view
aircraft carrier
us navy
uss constellation
high resolution
ultra high resolution
battle group
ph 2 heuser
us national archives
Date
08/10/1984
in collections
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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