United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka or Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka is a United States Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan. Its mission is to maintain and operate base facilities for the logistic,
Construction of the Yokosuka arsenal c.1870.
USS Oriskany (CVA-34) at Yokosuka, circa 1952
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) docks at the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan.
The U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka, with USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS George Washington is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy ship with that name, after George Washington, Founding Fath
United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
…forces, including principal afloat elements of the United States Seventh Fleet, including the only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS George Washington (CVN-73), the group she heads, Carrier Strike Group Five, and Destroyer Squadron 15. When Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan in 1853, using naval pressure…
USS George Washington transiting the East China Sea, December 2010
Barbara Bush christens USS George Washington on 21 July 1990 at Newport News Shipbuilding as President George H. W. Bush watches.
George Washington personnel carry injured personnel across the ship's flight deck after four personnel were rescued from the burning merchant fishing vessel, Diamond Shoal.
USS George Washington on her way to Norfolk Naval Shipyard