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Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed more than 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.
Valley Forge was established as the first state park of Pennsylvania in 1893 by the Valley Forge Park Commission (VFPC) "to preserve, improve, and maintain as a public park the site on which General George Washington's army encamped at Valley Forge." [7] The area around Washington's headquarters was chosen as the park site.
An aerial photo of the Valley Forge General Hospital, a United States Army hospital that operated from 1943 to 1974 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Valley Forge General Hospital is a former military hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The hospital was near both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Valley Forge.
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.
His A-4E #151080 was shot down on a bombing mission over the A Shau Valley, he ejected successfully and contacted SAR forces advising that he had a broken leg. An HH-3E helicopter #67-14710, call sign Jolly Green 23 from the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron was assigned to rescue him, but was shot down as it hovered and crashed ...
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The General Friedrich Von Steuben Headquarters is a historic house on Pennsylvania Route 23 in Valley Forge National Historical Park in Chester County, Pennsylvania.Built about 1770, it has been advanced as a possible residence of Baron Friedrich von Steuben (1730-1794), the Prussian drill-master of Continental Army troops during the 1777-78 Valley Forge encampment.
Sanelli was a graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy, Class of 1939. Following Valley Forge, he attended the University at Buffalo, but his education was interrupted in 1942 with the outbreak of World War II. He returned to college in 1946 and received a bachelor's degree in English. He later earned a master's degree from Columbia University.