The large harbor tugs MENOMINEE (YTB-790), WAPAKONETA (YTB-766) and DAHLONEGA (YTB-770) push on the bow of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) as the ship departs for the Persian Gulf region in support of Operation Desert Shield

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The large harbor tugs MENOMINEE (YTB-790), WAPAKONETA (YTB-766) and DAHLONEGA (YTB-770) push on the bow of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) as the ship departs for the Persian Gulf region in support of Operation Desert Shield

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Edward E. Crawford

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.