Members of the sea and anchor detail aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) watch from the fantail as the ship departs Yokosuka for the last time. The MIDWAY, which as been based in Japan since 1973, will be replaced by the aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier
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Base: Naval Station, Yokosuka
Country: Japan(JPN)
Scene Camera Operator: ENS Jeff Hilton
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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