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A Sailor gives a boy an American flag in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65).
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Port Everglades, Fla. (Apr. 29, 2004) A Sailor gives a boy an American flag in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65), during a Fleet Week open house aboard the ship. Fleet Week celebrations are an annual tradition thanking our nation's sea-going personnel for their dedicated service to our country. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Matthew Keane. File# 040429-N-6268K-004
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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