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Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Talitha Morgan, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), places luminary candles at the Civil War section of the Soldier's National Cemetery in the Gettysburg National Military Park.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (Nov. 23, 2013) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Talitha Morgan, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), places luminary candles at the Civil War section of the Soldier's National Cemetery in the Gettysburg National Military Park. Eight Sailors toured the park and helped place luminaries at Civil War gravesites to commemorate the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Lincoln is undergoing a Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Danian Douglas) File# 131123-N-XP477-358
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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