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Machinist's Mate Fireman Tommy Stanley performs outside the newly renovated Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan.
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NEW YORK (Nov. 09, 2008) Machinist's Mate Fireman Tommy Stanley, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), who was a finalist on NBC's Nashville Star last summer, performs outside the newly renovated Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan. The Intrepid Museum officially reopened to the public Nov. 8 after a two-year bow-to-stern refurbishment of the famed aircraft carrier, which served in World War II, the Vietnam War and recovery of the astronauts from the Mercury and Gemini space missions. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Matt Grills) File# 081109-N-6043G-075
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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