Flight deck crew members remove arresting wires prior to touch-and-go landings aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) during the vessel's circumnavigation of South America. The wires are being removed to prevent Argentine aircraft, which are taking part in the maneuvers, from landing aboard the carrier
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery
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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23/10/1990
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The U.S. National Archives
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