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A Sailor fills aircraft oxygen tanks with liquid oxygen on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Red Sea (Mar. 23, 2005) A Sailor fills aircraft oxygen tanks with liquid oxygen on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The Truman Carrier Strike Group recently turned over its responsibilities in the Persian Gulf to the Carl Vinson Strike Group, following nearly four months on station supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Jay C. Pugh File# 050323-N-0535P-047
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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