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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96975

USS Valley Forge (CV-45)


Crewmen line the carrier's decks to watch Hawaiian hula dancers welcome their ship to Pearl Harbor, 8 April 1950.
Valley Forge brought fighter, bomber and transport planes to replace Hawaii-based aircraft that she was to ferry back to the mainland for overhaul. She was scheduled to sail for San Francisco on 11 April.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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14 September 1999