Crew members man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the vessel passes the Arizona Memorial. The carrier is returning to the United States after serving in the Persian Gulf region during Operation Desert Shield

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Crew members man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the vessel passes the Arizona Memorial. The carrier is returning to the United States after serving in the Persian Gulf region during Operation Desert Shield

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Base: Pearl Harbor

State: Hawaii(HI)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: OS2 Bouvia

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.