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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96932

USS Valley Forge (CV-45)


Gets up steam as she prepares to leave Trincomalee, Ceylon, after a two-day visit by U.S. Task Force 38, circa April 1948.
The British heavy cruiser Norfolk is in the right background, and a Royal Navy light cruiser is partially visible at left.
Photograph was released for publication on 24 April 1948.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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25 August 1999