The Battle of Cherbourg off the French coast, during the American Civil War, 19th June 1864. From left to right, the Federal steam-sloop 'USS Kearsarge', the British yacht 'Deerhound' and the Confederate war steamer 'CSS Alabama'. The inset portraits are of US naval officer John Ancrum Winslow (1811 - 1873, left) and Confederate naval officer Raphael Semmes (1809 - 1877). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
January 1917: The 'Arizona' is launched as America prepares to enter World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
September 1925: American naval vessel, 'Pennsylvania' dockside at Pipitea Whay, Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by S. C. Smith/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
1941: The 'Boston Mass', an American seaplane tender, just after her launch. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
An American Martin bomber releases a Navy torpedo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
December 1941: USS Cassin, one of the three destroyers sunk at Pearl Harbour (Pearl Harbor), during the Japanese attack. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
April 1943: Aircraft carrier USS 'Yorktown', a recipient of a Presidential Citation for its participation in the Pacific Conflict through all its stages. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
May 1945: The US navy destroyer escort USS Eugene E Elmore, sank the German U-boat that attacked one of the destroyers she was escorting. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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U.S. Navy Through The Years
April 1943: Aircraft carrier USS 'Yorktown', a recipient of a Presidential Citation for its participation in the Pacific Conflict through all its stages. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
March 1945: The launch of the world's largest Aircraft Carrier, the USS Midway, at Newport, Virginia. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
August 1945: Manila Harbour during the summer of 1945, when American forces liberated the Philippines. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
March 1960: American Navy ships, 'The Valour' and 'Duxbury Bay' anchored at the Red Sea port of Aquaba at Jordan. (Photo by Flty/Central Press/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
The crew of American Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex organised to form the words 'Grusse an hamburg' (Greetings to hamburg) as they arrive into Hamburg harbour, 6th January 1962. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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Filipino spectators watch the USS Belleau Wood leave Cubi Point as it carries the last group of some 500 U.S. marines from Subic Bay Naval Base to Okinawa 24 November, 1992. The pullout, which is the largest withdrawl in U.S. Navy history, ended nearly a century of U.S. military presence in this former American colony. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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A picture released on May 05, 1975 shows a GI watching South Vietnamese refugees crowding a US Navy boat off the coasts of Vietnam at the end of Vietnamese war.
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U.S. Navy Through The Years
Dec. 2003 - Seen in this U.S. Navy handout a Standard Missile-3 is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie as part of the Missile Defense Agency's latest Ballistic Missile Defense System test to defeat a medium range ballistic missile threat. The SM-3, part of the Aegis Weapon System intercepted a target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii at an approximate speed of 3.7 kilometers per second. The two missiles collided several hundred kilometers from Kauai at an altitude of approximately 137 kilometers. (Photo by US Navy via Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
NEW YORK - MAY 27: U.S. Navy sailors (L to R) Joseph Scaramuzzino, Nicholas Reese and Barley Brian laugh on the deck of the USS Iwo Jima during Fleet Week festivities May 27, 2004 in New York City. Fleet Week includes dozens of military demonstrations and displays throughout the week, as well as public visitation of many of the participating ships. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy and released on March 26, 2005, the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) is seen July 26, 2005 in the Pacific Ocean. The Kiribati-flagged merchant vessel M/V Rokya 1 and the USS McCampbell (DDG 85) collided late March 25, 2006 approximately 30 miles southeast of the Iraqi coastline in the North Persian Gulf. Two U.S. Sailors received minor injuries as a result of the collision. (Photo by Konstandinos Goumenidis/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
MAY 25, 2016: Sailors on board of USS Bataan (LHD 5) arrive in New York Harbor for Fleet Week on May 25, 2016 in New York City. Nearly 4,500 Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen will participate during Fleet Week New York (FWNY) this year. General public ship tours will be conducted daily throughout the week in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
U.S. Navy Through The Years
2016 - The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is underway for the first time conducting at-sea tests and trials on the Kennebeck River 2015 in the Atlantic Ocean. The Zumwalt is the largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy. (Photo by U.S. Navy/General Dynamics Bath Iron Works via Getty Images)
USS Stennis Conducts Operations in Philippine Sea
PHILIPPINE SEA - JUNE 18: In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, a combined formation of aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 pass in formation above the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). The formation included F/A-18 Hornets from the Black Aces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41, the Diamondbacks of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 102, the Eagles of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115, the Royal Maces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 27, the Vigilantes of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, and the Warhawks of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 97. The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS John C. Stennis and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) are conducting dual aircraft carrier strike group operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. (Photo by Lt. Steve Smith/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
