A port view of the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) underway in the Indian Ocean (IOC) off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia (IDN), in support of Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE humanitarian operations in response to the tsunami that devastated the area on December 26, 2004
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Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)
Scene Camera Operator: Awc Jeffrey Gareis, 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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