U.S. Navy Sailors man the rails of the Kitty Hawk Class Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) as it steams into Truman Bay, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 10, 2006, at the end of a 56-day winter underway period in the western Pacific Ocean. (CHIEF Mass Communication SPECIALIST Todd Cichonowicz) (Released)
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Base: Yokosuka
State: Kanagawa
Country: Japan (JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: MCC Todd Cichonowicz, USN
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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