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English: The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Valley Forge (LPH-8) with Marine Corps Boeing-Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters embarked, probably during operations off South Vietnam, circa 1968. the dock landing ship USS Thomaston (LSD-28) is in the background, at right.
USS Valley Forge (CV/CVA/CVS-45, LPH-8) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy.The ship was the first US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named after Valley Forge, the 1777–1778 winter encampment of General George Washington's Continental Army.
English: The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Valley Forge (LPH-8) underway in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1962-63, prior to her "FRAM II" overhaul. She has fifteen U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky UH-34D helicopters spotted in take-off positions on her flight deck.
English: U.S. Navy Commander C.V. Johnson taxies forward after making the 50,000th landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CVA-45), during operations off Korea on 10 May 1953. His plane is a Douglas AD-4 Skyraider from Fighter Squadron 54 (VF-54) "Hell's Angels".
Valley Forge was the winter encampment of the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. The Valley Forge encampment lasted six months, from December 19, 1777, to June 19, 1778. It was the third of the eight winter encampments that Washington and the Continental Army endured during the war.
Valley Forge was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1961 and was listed in the initial National Register of Historic Places in 1966. [8] [9] The area covered by these listings goes outside what was then Valley Forge State Park boundaries to include four historic houses where the Marquis de Lafayette and other officers were quartered.
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