An air-to-air left side view of three Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) F-14A Tomcat aircraft in formation.  Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) is assigned to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), which is in the Mediterranean on ext

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An air-to-air left side view of three Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) F-14A Tomcat aircraft in formation. Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) is assigned to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), which is in the Mediterranean on ext

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Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Scene Camera Operator: LCDR John Leenhouts, USN

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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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01/07/1988
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