Loading of the USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. U.S. Navy Chance Vought F4Us Corsair fighter aircraft loaded on the ship. A truck on the dock. Families of the sailors stand on dock. Forward section of the ship. Men on deck remove lines. Brow being removed. Superstructure of the ship. Crane on the deck. Ship underway.
Homecoming of the USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. High ranking U.S. Naval officer and crew members stand at the deck of the ship and look at the score board at ship. This includes Vadm Sprague, Group Commander and Captain of the ship and Radm Hoskins. Vadm Sprague stand with flowers received from Miss California and smell it. Destroyer moored to the ship. Sailors come down gangway. Sailor on dock kisses his wife and daughter.
Homecoming of USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. Sailors come down a gangway. They carry boxes and sea bags (Liberty party disembarks). Men stand on the ship. Spectators watch from the dock.
USS Valley Forge (CV-45) comes into San Diego channel in California. A saluting battery off North Island in the foreground. Helicopters hover over the ship. Valley Forge in the channel framed by a gunner and the saluting battery.
Homecoming of USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in San Diego, California. Men at quarters aboard the ship. The Mayor of San Diego Joshua H. Bean speaks. The Consul of Sweden, Waldo Homburg comes to speak. Wives greet their sailor husbands on the dock. The sailors kiss and hug their wives and children.
Young children of embassy diplomats of various countries give Yule greetings in Washington DC. The children dressed in their native dresses are seated on chairs. They sing a song on a stage and deliver their message of goodwill and friendship.
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