A US Navy (USN) SH-3H Sea King helicopter, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 85 (HC-85, Golden Gaters), hovers over the Battleship USS Arizona (BB 39) Memorial (center, foreground) as the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) arrives, with her crew manning the rails and rendering honors, on her maiden port visit to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (HI), on the way to the Indian Ocean to participate in Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE, the humanitarian relief effort in response to the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004. The battleship to the right is the USS Missouri (BB 63) Memorial

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Pearl Harbor

State: Hawaii (HI)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PHC Donald Bray, Usn

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.