USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1977, the ship is the second of ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service, and is the first ship named after the 34th President of the United States and General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The vessel was initially named simply as USS Eisenhower, much like the lead ship of the class, Nimitz, but the name was changed to its present form on 25 May 1970. The carrier, like all others of her class, was constructed at Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Virginia, with the same design as the lead ship, although the ship has been overhauled twice to bring her up to the standards of those constructed more recently.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower underway in the Atlantic Ocean
A Sea Harrier of the Fleet Air Arm takes off from the deck of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1984.
An F-8E(FN) Crusader of the AƩronavale traps aboard Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1983.
Dwight D. Eisenhower comes alongside USS Concord (AFS-5) for UNREP in the Mediterranean, 1983
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, and the lead ship of her class. One of the largest warships in the world, she was laid down, launched, and commissioned as CVAN-68, "aircraft carrier, attack, nuclear powered", but she was later redesignated as CVN-68, "aircraft carrier, multi-mission, nuclear-powered", on 30 June 1975, as part of a fleet-wide realignment that year.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) off the coast of San Diego in July 2009.
Catherine Nimitz Lay christens Nimitz on 13 May 1972
Nimitz on her first deployment in 1976 alongside nuclear-powered cruisers California and South Carolina
Nimitz (right) alongside HMS Ark Royal at Norfolk Naval Station in August 1978