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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96954 USS Valley Forge (CVA-45) Commander C.V. Johnson taxies forward after making the carrier's 50,000th landing, during operations off Korea on 10 May 1953. His plane is a Douglas AD "Skyraider". Another AD is flying in the upper right. Note the ship's arresting gear wires, after elevator and flight deck crewmen. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 137KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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2 September 1999