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USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) prepares for Fixed Wing Operations during Flight Quarters on April 24, 2003. NIMITZ Carrier Strike Force and Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) were deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. US Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd class Elizabeth Thompson.