The nuclear-powered attack submarine USS HAMMERHEAD (SSN-663) is underway beside the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) as a Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 5 (HS-5) SH-3 Sea King helicopter hovers over the flight deck of the carrier. The helicopter will be transporting a gift from the commanding officer of the GEORGE WASHINGTON to the crew members of the HAMMERHEAD
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Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 John K. Sokolowski
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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Date
13/09/1992
in collections
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The U.S. National Archives
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