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Ben Cloud Collection Photo

from SDASM Archives

• dan_inbox said:

  according to page 4 of pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/casdam/benjamincloud.pdf "Douglas A-1 Skyraider aboard USS Valley Forge (CV-45), crashing into gun director platform. "

Aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge, Sydney Harbour, 1948 / photographer Ted Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

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• beachcomber australia said:

  Snap! (well almost!) - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18059458 So it must have been Friday 30 January 1948.

• beachcomber australia said:

  I have no idea about the planes, but the RAAF bombed the VALLEY FORGE the following week - Read All About It - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49644119 . Mention of Mustangs in the article, but they might have been Australian.

• Seth Gaines said:

  Those are Curtis Helldivers.

• martin said:

  definitely helldivers...

• pankaj thapa magar said:

  Superb ... WoW

Valley Forge CV45

from SDASM Archives

• dsalay said:

  Grumman Bearcats on deck.