A commercial harbor tug pulls the destroyer USS SPRUANCE (DD-963) toward a pier following the vessel's return to Mayport. The ship is one of five vessels of the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60) returning home from deployment in the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Storm
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Base: Naval Station, Mayport
State: Florida (FL)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Floyd Kevin Waller
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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