US Navy (USN) Aviation Machinist's Mate AIRMAN (ADAN) James Mendoza, videotapes aircraft assigned to embarked Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65)
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milosz Reterski, Usn
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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Date
1922
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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