Crew members look out from the lower deck and refueling transfer station of the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66) following the vessel's arrival in port. The AMERICA has returned to Norfolk after being deployed in the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Storm

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Crew members look out from the lower deck and refueling transfer station of the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66) following the vessel's arrival in port. The AMERICA has returned to Norfolk after being deployed in the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Storm

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Carl

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Carriers

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.