A US Navy (USN) EA-6B Prowler jet, Testing and Evaluation Squadron 9 (AIRTEVRON NINE)(VX-9), Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake, California (CA), makes an arrested landing onboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN is currently conducting operations in preparation for an up coming deployment

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A US Navy (USN) EA-6B Prowler jet, Testing and Evaluation Squadron 9 (AIRTEVRON NINE)(VX-9), Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake, California (CA), makes an arrested landing onboard the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN is currently conducting operations in preparation for an up coming deployment

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Lewis Hunsaker, Usn

Release Status: Released to Public
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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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