A port side view of the Soviet Kiev-class anti-submarine aircraft carrier NOVOROSSIYSK, taken from a P-3 Orion patrol aircraft approximately 750 miles west of Midway Island. The carrier is operating with nine other Soviet ships and is moving in a northeasterly direction. This is the largest Soviet task force to enter Central Pacific waters

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A port side view of the Soviet Kiev-class anti-submarine aircraft carrier NOVOROSSIYSK, taken from a P-3 Orion patrol aircraft approximately 750 miles west of Midway Island. The carrier is operating with nine other Soviet ships and is moving in a northeasterly direction. This is the largest Soviet task force to enter Central Pacific waters

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Loveall

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.