U.S. Navy Sailors watch as an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter picks up a cargo of ammunition from the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during vertical replenishment operations in the Arabian Gulf on April 27, 2003. KITTY HAWK with embarked Carrier Air Wing 5 is currently underway supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate AIRMAN Bo Flannigan) (Released)

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U.S. Navy Sailors watch as an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter picks up a cargo of ammunition from the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during vertical replenishment operations in the Arabian Gulf on April 27, 2003. KITTY HAWK with embarked Carrier Air Wing 5 is currently underway supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate AIRMAN Bo Flannigan) (Released)

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)

Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Bo Flannigan, 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.