The miscellaneous flagship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) passes astern of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) during Operation Southern Watch, the enforcement of the no-fly zone in southern Iraq. F-14A Tomcat aircraft of Fighter Squadron 24 (VF-24) and Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211) are parked on the flight deck
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Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Aw) Jon H. Hockersmith
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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