File:Aft view of USS Valley Forge (CV-45) underway in 1950.jpg

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Description An overhead view of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CV-45) underway, with various aircraft of Carrier Air Group 5 (CVG-5) on deck. Visible are (from stern to bow) Seven Grumman F9F-2 Panther (of Fighter Squadrons 51 (VF-51) and VF-52), plus one forward, 10 Douglas AD-4 Skyraiders (from Attack Squadron 55 (VA-55)), and about twelve Vought F4U-4B Corsairs (from VF-53 and VF-54). Valley Forge as on a regular deployment to the Western Pacific beginning on 1 May 1950, and was visiting Hong Kong, when the Korean War broke out on 25 June 1950. Up to December she was then engaged in war operations.
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