AIR OPERATIONS ABOARD USS VALLEY FORGE (CV 45) AT SEA OFF KOREA Part 3

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8291-1 ADC 8291 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy Shipment #22) Card I of 2 FILM: ARCH E APC MP 952° ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 AIR OPERATIONS ABOARD USS VALLEY FORGE (CV 45) AT SEA Off Korea; 26=27 August 1950 AD taking off. Panther Jet landing. F4U on deck® A rocket, jarred loose, skids across deck is picked up and carried off. Towmotor pulling fighter plane. Raising an F9F to flight deck on port elevator and the F9F being towed onto deck® Loading 1,000 lb bomb aboard AD4 . F9F being catapulted. Other F9Fs taking off. MS, crewman, looking through fixed binoculars, speaking over microphone, (sky lookout) F9Fs and F4Us landing on deck after strike mission. Men pushing F9F on catapult for takeoff. LS, looking out, as F9F takes off, followed by others. F9F and F4U landing after strike. MS, 500-1b bomb being hoisted underneath plane. Helicopter from Philippine Sea lands and then takes off. CUs, rockets on a dolly are brought up on elevator and rolled off. CUs, loading 50 cal ammunition belts into F4U. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY FB/ew Signal Corps 111 ADC 8291-2 ADC 8291 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy Shipment #22) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 952' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 AIR OPERATIONS ABOARD USS VALLEY FORGE (CV 45) AT SEA (CONT'D) Off Korea; 26-27 August 1950 (CONT'D) MS, hoisting 1000=1b bomb underneath plane. MS, AD with three 1000=1b bombs and two rockets. MLS, Lt W L Harper, flight deck officer, directing takeoffs. F9Fs landing on carrier. LS, Lt E L Owens, flight deck director, signalling F4U for landing. MS, of sameo F9F being lowered to hangar deck as other F9Fs are re=spotted on flight deck. LAS, scoreboard. Men working on plane engine. Men arming 100-1b bombs and rockets on plane wing. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY FB/ew

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities