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Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Jemarcus Thomas, from Tampa, Fla., lays a 1972 penny on the gravesites of a fallen soldier at the Gettysburg Soldier's National Cemetery.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (Nov. 19, 2014) Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Jemarcus Thomas, from Tampa, Fla., lays a 1972 penny on the gravesites of a fallen soldier at the Gettysburg Soldier's National Cemetery. Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in Gettysburg, Pa., to participate in the 151st anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln is undergoing refueling and complex overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Gary A. Prill) File# 141119-N-RB564-083
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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