Crew spelling on deck

• Examples of crews spelling out messages on the deck of aircraft carriers, 1950–2005
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  USS Leyte (CV-32), "Leyte", 1950-52
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  USS Franklin D. Roosevelt off Nice, France, 1951
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  USS Bataan (CVL-29), 1953
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  USS Monterey (CVL-26), Gulf of Mexico, 29 January 1953
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  HMAS Melbourne (R21), Hawaii, "Aloha", 1958
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  USS Lexington in San Francisco Bay, 1958
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  USS Yorktown (CVS-10), "Haro NiHon", 1960
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  USS Independence (CVA-62), USS Saratoga (CVA-60), and USS Intrepid (CVA-11), the 50th birthday of Naval Aviation, 1961
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  USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), "SEAFAIR 62", 1962
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  USS Kearsarge, "Mercury 9", 1963
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  USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), part of the first nuclear-powered task force, 1964
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  USS Independence (CV-62), 1979.
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  USS America (CV 66), diamond anniversary of US naval aviation, 1986
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  USS Midway (CV-41), "Sayonara" (goodbye) leaving Yokosuka, Japan, 1991
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  USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Everett is the homeport. 1996.
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  USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), 1999
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  USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), 2000
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  Sailors aboard USS Enterprise spell out "E = MC2x40" on the carrier's flight deck, marking forty years of U.S. Naval nuclear power, 2001
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  USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3), "9-11 Let’s Roll", 2002
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  Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Nassau (LHA 4), spelling out “24 MEU PROUD!”, 2003
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  USS Nassau (LHA 4), "25 YEARS" (of the ship’s commissioning), 2004
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  USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), "Jack is back", 2005