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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-439889

Captain John Ford, USNR


Has coffee in the photo lab on board USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), during the filming his motion picture "This is Korea", off the Korean coast on 8 January 1951.
A professional film director in civilian life, he also made movies for and about the Navy while serving on active duty.

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

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2 December 1999