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The above-displayed photograph of ships lined up at the piers of the Norfolk Naval Base was widely circulated online beginning in March 2013 with accompanying claims that it showed five U.S. aircraft carriers simultaneously docked in the same place for the first time since World War II. Although the photograph is genuine, and five carriers were indeed docked at Norfolk at the same time, most of the claims in the accompanying text are exaggerated or untrue: the ships were not all first line carriers, nor were they pulled out from the Middle East and ordered into harbor for routine inspections, and the situation was not the first occurrence of its type since World War II, nor was it a breach of long-standing military protocol. Although the Norfolk photograph was circulated in March 2013 as something snapped the other day, it was actually taken in mid-December 2012, when many U.S. Navy ships of all types were briefly docked at a number of fleet concentration areas to facilitate the traditional practice of giving ships' crews a chance to spend part of the holiday season with their families: That grouping of ships at Norfolk did include five aircraft carriers (the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Enterprise, USS Harry S. Truman, and USS Abraham Lincoln, but they were not all first line carriers, they were not diverted from the Middle East or ordered into port for routine inspections, nor was this the first time such a collection of carriers had taken place since World War II:
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