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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97160

USS Valley Forge (CV-45)


"Valley Forge Sailors Enjoy Leave in Japan -- M. Dean Johnson, Airman, USN, (left) ... with two shipmates from the Puget Sound Country, Miner C. Hazen, Airman, USN, ... and Korval I. Wickton, Jr., Airman, USN, ... give their dinner orders to the Japanese waitress at the Maipei Hotel, Karuizawa, Japan, while on rest leave after extended sea duty in the Far East aboard USS Valley Forge."
Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 16 April 1952.

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

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3 December 1999