Planes line the decks of the aircraft carriers USS MIDWAY (CV-41) and the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) as the two vessels are moored beside each other at a pier. The MIDWAY is en route from Naval Station, Yokosuka, Japan, to Naval Air Station, North Island, Calif., where it will be decommissioned in the spring of 1992. The INDEPENDENCE will travel to Yokosuka to take over as the Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Naval Station, Pearl Harbor
State: Hawaii(HI)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Omar F. Hasan
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
23/08/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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