Straight on, bow shot ot the U.S. Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carrier; the Nimitz Class, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) (right), as it refuels the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS STOUT (DDG 55) while transiting the Atlantic Ocean on January 30, 1996. This marked the first time the STOUT came alongside an aircraft carrier for underway replenishment

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Straight on, bow shot ot the U.S. Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carrier; the Nimitz Class, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) (right), as it refuels the Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS STOUT (DDG 55) while transiting the Atlantic Ocean on January 30, 1996. This marked the first time the STOUT came alongside an aircraft carrier for underway replenishment

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Chris Vickers, 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.