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US Navy (USN) SENIOR CHIEF PETTY Officer (SCPO) Paul J. Fitz-Randolph (left) and USN Captain (CPT) Thomas A. Hejl, Commanding Officer, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), pose for photograph, before cutting the grand opening cake in celebration of the opening of the recently renovated Command Retention Center, aboard ship. USS Kitty Hawk operates out of Yokosuka Navel Base, Japan, and is the world's only permanently forward deployed aircraft carrier. Official Navy PHOTO by Photographer's Mate AIRMAN Ronald Gutridge
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Base: Uss Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Ronald Gutridge, 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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17/09/2001
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The U.S. National Archives
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