Onboard the flight deck of the USN Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), AIRMAN (AN) Kevin Wong, conducts scheduled maintenance on the No. 4 aircraft catapult. Preventive maintenance is performed to avert corrosion and ensure catapults function correctly during flight operations. The KITTY HAWK is currently in port at Yokosuka, Japan

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Onboard the flight deck of the USN Navy (USN) Aircraft Carrier, USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), AIRMAN (AN) Kevin Wong, conducts scheduled maintenance on the No. 4 aircraft catapult. Preventive maintenance is performed to avert corrosion and ensure catapults function correctly during flight operations. The KITTY HAWK is currently in port at Yokosuka, Japan

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Naval Hospital, Yokosuka

Country: Japan (JPN)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Jimmy C. Pan, Usn

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.