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The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), foreground,

An elevated view of three aircraft carriers docked at piers. They are, front to back, the nuclear-powered USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) and the USS NIMITZ (CVN-68). In the back is the USS AMERICA (CV-66)

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High angle port quarter view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, Virginia, following the May 26 aircraft crash on her flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others, and damaged several parked aircraft

Low angle port bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, Virginia, following the May 26 aircraft crash on her flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others, and damaged several parked aircraft

High angle port bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, Virginia, following the May 26 aircraft crash on her flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others, and damaged several parked aircraft

Low angle starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, Virginia, following the May 26 aircraft crash on her flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others, and damaged several parked aircraft

Low angle bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, Virginia, following the May 26 aircraft crash on her flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others, and damaged several parked aircraft

A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, VA., following the May 26th aircraft crash on its flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others and damaged several parked aircraft

An aerial port bow view of the Forrestal Class Aircraft Carrier, USS FORRESTAL (CVA 59) underway approximately one month after fires and explosions damaged the ship leaving 132 crewmen dead, 62 injured, and two missing and presumed dead while on duty in waters off Vietnam. The FORRESTAL is homeport at Norfolk, Virginia

Aerial view of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on the Elizabeth River. Ships in the yard, (L to R), the decommissioned submarine tender PROTEUS (AS-19), a destroyer under overhaul, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73), decommissioned submarine tender HUNLEY (AS-31), the stripped down hull of the decommissioned nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser VIRGINIA (CGN-38) and a medium auxiliary repair dock inside the large graving dock at lower right

After the return of the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) to its home port, investigators examine some of the damage incurred when a T-2C Buckeye aircraft crashed into the ship's superstructure. The accident, which occurred during routine training on October 29, killed five people and injured 19. The wreckage in the foreground is from two other Buckeye aircraft destroyed in the accident

An aerial stern view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) returning to home port in Norfolk, Virginia, following the May 26 aircraft crash on her flight deck. The crash, which occurred during the night landing of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft assigned to the carrier, killed 14 crewmen, injured 45 others, and damaged several parked aircraft

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Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Ken Brewer

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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28/05/1981
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label_outline Explore Ea 6 B Prowler Aircraft, Aircraft Crash, B Prowler Aircraft

Flight deck crew members and ordnance crew members use an HLU-196 bomb hoist to load an AIM-7 Sparrow missile onto the pylon of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72)

US Navy (USN) AIRMAN (AM) Lorne Horit, of Huntsville, Michigan (MI), inspects the stabilizers of an EA-6B Prowler aircraft, assigned to the "Rooks" of Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron One Three Seven (VAQ-137) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65)

A stern view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) underway during exercises off the Virginia Capes

A Fighter Squadron 211 (VF-211) F-14A Tomcat aircraft prepares to catch the arresting wire as it comes in for a landing on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) during flight operations aboard the vessel

A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 (HC-11), assigned to the replenishment oiler USS ROANOKE (AOR 7), background), delivers cargo to the deck of the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CV 43). On the left is an E-2 Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft. The CORAL SEA is returning to its home port at Naval Air Station Alameda, California

A A-6E Intruder aircraft refuels an EA-6B Prowler aircraft during a demonstration of U.S. Navy aircraft being conducted for military officials from the People's Republic of China visiting aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68). (Substandard image)

Flight deck crewmen conduct flight operations with an F-14 Tomcat aircraft aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). The F-14 is in position to be catapulted from the carrier

A flight suit is displayed in honor of Tech. Sgt. Herman

An aerial stern view of the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) underway off the coast of Virginia (VA)

A port side stern view showing the USN Navy (USN) Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship, USS ESSEX (LHD 2), a part of the Forward Deployed Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) underway in the Philippine Sea, enroute to provide much needed humanitarian assistance for the victims of a devastating land and mudslide that buried a village in the southern part of the Island of Leyte, Republic of the Philippines

Maintenance crewmen aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) work on an S-3 Viking aircraft, left, and an EA-6B Prowler aircraft, right, during the NATO exercise Display Determination '81

86th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters and 86th

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