Onboard the US Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), Damage Controlman Fireman (DCFN) Heath Neal, uses the 1MC (general announcing system) to notify the crew of damage control efforts around the ship from Damage Control Central (DCC), during a fire fighting drill. Sailors train to defend the ship and control battle damage during such drills. The KITTY HAWK is currently in port at Yokosuka, Japan
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
State: Yokosuka
Country: Japan (JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jarod Hodge, 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
26/04/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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