Japanese government officials pose for a group during their visit aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70). Captain Thomas A. Mercer, commanding officers of the carrier, is on the far left, and Rear Admiral Walter T. Piotti, commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group Five, is second from the right
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Base: Naval Hospital, Yokosuka
Country: Japan (JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN David L. Miller
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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