A US Navy (USN) Crash and Salvage team attach the sling of a carrier vessel crash crane to a USN F/A-18 Hornet fighter, to remove the aircraft from the Landing Area of the flight deck during a drill aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73). The WASHINGTON is conducting carrier qualifications for the first time since completing a Docked Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) period at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipyard
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Michael D. Blackwell II, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/02/2006
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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