Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 70273

USS Platte (AO-24)


Refuels USS Valley Forge (CV-45) and USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), while they were enroute from Pearl Harbor to San Diego during Operation "Miki", November 1949.
Photographed by Ted Huggins from Valley Forge's flight deck as she dropped back after taking on oil.
Note retractable radio antennas mounted alongside the flight deck.

Courtesy of Ted Huggins, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

3 September 1999