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.
A group of British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots wearing flight jackets gather. One of the pilots dances while another smokes a cigarette. RAF personnel look into the sky. A Gloster Meteor jet in flight over field. A Hawker P.1081 flies over air field and then into the sky. Hawker P.1081 banks right while flying over clouds.
A ruined and abandoned factory in a small village in Italy after World War II. A dead tree is seen in the foreground. Wind blows a tattered newspaper in front of the factory’s wire fence. The tattered newspaper is blown as far as the town center. A baker stands in front of a bakery or paneficio. A man leads a horse cart in front of the Italian bakery. Railroad track overgrown with weeds. Sign in abandoned glove factory gate reads “Proibito Entrare” (“Entrance forbidden”). Cobwebs and cogwheels inside an unused machine. A lathe, fabric rolling machine, and various machines are seen in abandoned factory. A dilapidated cashier’s booth with sign “CASSA” (“CASHIER”). Destroyed building of abandoned factory and an intact smokestack next to railroad tanker cars. A nearly abandoned Italian village street. A woman sits outside a shop. An Italian boy and his dog stand beside a booth of an abandoned carousel in deserted town square. A woman walks with a copper jug. Two women, one of them knitting, beside a stall. Other women are seen knitting. A boy plays with toy boat in a town fountain.
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