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US Navy (USN) Sailors who are members of the ΦKitty Hawk-Battle Cats,τ the baseball team from the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), pose for a group photograph with two players from the Sapporo Nippon"Fighters"baseball team in Sapporo, Japan (JPN). While in port, Sailors have a chance to sightsee, shop, enjoy recreational activities and participate in community relation projects with their host nationals. The USS KITTY HAWK demonstrates power projection and sea control as the USN only permanently, forward-deployed aircraft carrier
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Sapporo
Country: Japan (JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: MCSN Adam York, 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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1922
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The U.S. National Archives
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