Immediately before and after the Korean War, and while "working up" during that conflict, Valley Forge carried out the routine work that comes an aircraft carrier's way: training, shipyard availability and logistics. In early 1950, she ferried aircraft to and from Hawaii, before beginning what then looked like a peacetime deployment to the Far East. In the last part of 1953, after four combat tours in just over three years, Valley Forge was overhauled and then transited the Panama Canal to take up new duties with the Atlantic Fleet.
This page features images of USS Valley Forge's 1950-53 activities that are not Korean War related.
For links to further pictures of Valley Forge's activities
and operations in 1950-53, see:
USS Valley Forge -- Korean War Era
Actions and Activities -- Selected Views.
For links to additional views related to USS Valley Forge,
see:
USS Valley Forge (CV/CVA/CVS-45 and
LPH-8) -- Selected Views.
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
For links to further pictures of Valley Forge's activities
and operations in 1950-53, see:
USS Valley Forge -- Korean War
Era Actions and Activities -- Selected Views.
For links to additional views related to USS Valley Forge,
see:
USS Valley Forge (CV/CVA/CVS-45
and LPH-8) -- Selected Views.
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
Page made 16 September 1999
Coding updated 7 October 2001