A port beam view of the patrol combatant-missile (hydrofoil) USS HERCULES (PHM 2) during an underway replenishment operation with the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) off the coast of Key West, Florida
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Gulf Of Mexico
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Didas
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.
Tags
Date
21/06/1987
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
Copyright info
No known copyright restrictions