An elevated port bow view of the oiler USNS NAVASOTA (T-AO 106) conducting an underway replenishment of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41) off its port side and the guided missile cruiser USS ENGLAND (CG 22) off its starboard side
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Philippine Sea
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 David M. Witthuhn
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
30/11/1983
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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