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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96943

USS Valley Forge (CVA-45)


Approaches the Pedro Miguel Lock while transiting the Panama Canal, circa 18 August 1953. Her deckload includes several TBM, F4U and F2H aircraft and many automobiles.
Photograph was released for publication on 16 September 1953.

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

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25 August 1999