High oblique port bow view of the Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) under construction in drydock #12 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Various elements of modular construction can be seen in the yard including the ships elevators in the lower right of the photo. The stern of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) transport ship USNS Gilliland (T-AKR-298) can be seen at a fitting out berth undergoing conversion

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High oblique port bow view of the Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) under construction in drydock #12 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Various elements of modular construction can be seen in the yard including the ships elevators in the lower right of the photo. The stern of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) transport ship USNS Gilliland (T-AKR-298) can be seen at a fitting out berth undergoing conversion

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: James River

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Robert J. Sitar

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.