An E-2C Hawkeye aircraft, with its arresting hook down, approaches the flight deck for a landing aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69). The E-2C is assigned to Airborne Early Warning Squadron 121 (VAW-121). Second view in a series of five
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Scene Camera Operator: PH1 David Maclean
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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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06/07/1980
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The U.S. National Archives
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