Crew members look up from working on a radar dome aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) while the vessel is underway during its circumnavigation of South America
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Dennis Taylor
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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crew
crew members
radar
dome
radar dome
aircraft
aircraft carrier uss abraham lincoln
cvn
vessel
circumnavigation
radar equipment
atlantic ocean
nuclear powered
aircraft carrier
nuclear powered aircraft carrier
high resolution
ph 2 dennis taylor
south america
us navy
uss abraham lincoln
nimitz class
cvn 72
us national archives
Date
07/10/1990
in collections
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The U.S. National Archives
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