Participants in the christening ceremony for the Aegis guided missile cruiser USS VALLEY FORGE (CG 50) pause for a group picture after the ceremony. Left to right: Julia Vadala Taft, sponsor; Patricia Goldman, matron of honor; Leonard Erb, president, Ingalls Shipbuilding; Colonel James Coates, Valley Forge Military Academy/Junior College; Deputy Secretary of Defense William H. Taft IV; Vice Admiral Harry C. Schrader Jr., commander, Naval Surface Force, US Pacific Fleet; and Captain George W. Dowell III, suprevisor of shipbuilding, Pascagoula
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Pascagoula
State: Mississippi (MS)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
29/09/1984
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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