U.S. Navy LT. j.g. John Slagle greets his daughter, after he disembarked from the Kitty Hawk Class Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) on Dec. 10, 2006. The KITTY HAWK has just returned to Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY), Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, at the end of a 56-day winter underway period in the western Pacific Ocean. (Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class John L. Beeman) (Released)

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U.S. Navy LT. j.g. John Slagle greets his daughter, after he disembarked from the Kitty Hawk Class Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) on Dec. 10, 2006. The KITTY HAWK has just returned to Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY), Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, at the end of a 56-day winter underway period in the western Pacific Ocean. (Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class John L. Beeman) (Released)

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Yokosuka

State: Kanagawa

Country: Japan (JPN)

Scene Major Command Shown: USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63)

Scene Camera Operator: MC2 John L. Beeman, 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.