PETTY Officer 2nd Class (PO2) Robert Stollen holds his daughter for the first time as he returns from an Indian Ocean deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)
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Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay
State: Luzon
Country: Philippines (PHL)
Scene Camera Operator: PHC Ken George
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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