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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96953 USS Valley Forge (CV-45) Ordnancemen perform maintenance on 20mm aircraft cannon on the carrier's flight deck, during operations off Korea, 30 March 1952. The ship's forward 5"/38 twin gun mounts are at right. Aircraft parked in the immediate background is a Douglas AD "Skyraider" (possibly AD-2 Bureau # 122251). Note firefighting hose in the lower right. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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2 September 1999