The guided missile frigate USS JACK WILLIAMS (FFG 24) cruises alongside the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67) during underway replenishment operations. Visible is the port bow section of the JACK WILLIAMS
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Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Milton Savage
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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15/06/1984
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The U.S. National Archives
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