An F-14B Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron One Zero Two (VF-102) prepares to make an arrested landing on board the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). George Washington and her embarked Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1) (not shown) are operating in the Persian Gulf to enforce UN sanctions against Iraq, by patrolling the no-fly zone under operation Southern Watch. (Duplicate image, see also DNSD0103472 or search 971124N1884F001)
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Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: LT Bryan Fetter
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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