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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-429464

La Fayette

(French Aircraft Carrier, ex-USS Langley, CVL-27)

Raising of the French national flag, as the ship was formally transferred to France in ceremonies at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, 2 June 1951.
Note U.S. Navy bandsmen in the center foreground.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 590 pixels

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28 December 2000