danielwettling Sun, 05/17/2026 - 16:24 oldernewer Date picture taken 1948 Tags Aircraft carrier Shows place(s) Bowen Road above Wanchai [????- ] Luk Kwok Hotel (1st generation) [1933-1987] Sailors Home and Mission to Seamen / Harcourt House [1933-c.1983] China Fleet Club [1933-1982] Log in or register to post comments Comments U.S. Aircraft Carrier Post 1947 as the Japanese War Memorial atop Mount Cameron has been demolished. Noted a "V" on the tailplane of one of the aircraft. Would this be the USS Valley Forge from 1947/48 ? Log in or register to post comments There's a copy shown at… There's a copy shown at https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-56767859 with the date 1948 Log in or register to post comments 1948 Date Getty image: https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/aircraft-carrier-in-hong-kong-harbour-news-photo/3318258?adppopup=true . Photo dated 5 April 1948 (?). The USS Valley Forge embarked on a round-the-world cruise in 1948 and entered Hong Kong harbour on the morning of 18 February. The port visit was from 18-21 February. Left Hong Kong for Tsingtao, China. The carrier's nickname was "Happy Valley". Source US Navy USS Valley Forge CV-45 Cruise Maiden Deployment 1947-1948 Cruise Book:https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv45-47/index_004.htm China Mail, 18 February 1948. Log in or register to post comments "V" Tailplane Markings The "V" tail code signifies Carrier Air Group (CVG) 11, which deployed with USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in 1947-48. Source https://www.navsource.net/archives/02/45.htm Photo of a "Bearcat": https://www.navsource.net/archives/02/024529.jpg Log in or register to post comments HMS London Difficult to verify but given the year was 1948, it is likely that the vessel moored alongside the "North Arm" of the Naval Dockyard was HMS London. Log in or register to post comments
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Post 1947 as the Japanese War Memorial atop Mount Cameron has been demolished. Noted a "V" on the tailplane of one of the aircraft. Would this be the USS Valley Forge from 1947/48 ? Log in or register to post comments
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1948 Date Getty image: https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/aircraft-carrier-in-hong-kong-harbour-news-photo/3318258?adppopup=true . Photo dated 5 April 1948 (?). The USS Valley Forge embarked on a round-the-world cruise in 1948 and entered Hong Kong harbour on the morning of 18 February. The port visit was from 18-21 February. Left Hong Kong for Tsingtao, China. The carrier's nickname was "Happy Valley". Source US Navy USS Valley Forge CV-45 Cruise Maiden Deployment 1947-1948 Cruise Book:https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv45-47/index_004.htm China Mail, 18 February 1948. Log in or register to post comments
"V" Tailplane Markings The "V" tail code signifies Carrier Air Group (CVG) 11, which deployed with USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in 1947-48. Source https://www.navsource.net/archives/02/45.htm Photo of a "Bearcat": https://www.navsource.net/archives/02/024529.jpg Log in or register to post comments
HMS London Difficult to verify but given the year was 1948, it is likely that the vessel moored alongside the "North Arm" of the Naval Dockyard was HMS London. Log in or register to post comments
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U.S. Aircraft Carrier
Post 1947 as the Japanese War Memorial atop Mount Cameron has been demolished.
Noted a "V" on the tailplane of one of the aircraft. Would this be the USS Valley Forge from 1947/48 ?
There's a copy shown at…
There's a copy shown at https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-56767859 with the date 1948
1948 Date
Getty image: https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/aircraft-carrier-in-hong-kong-harbour-news-photo/3318258?adppopup=true . Photo dated 5 April 1948 (?).
The USS Valley Forge embarked on a round-the-world cruise in 1948 and entered Hong Kong harbour on the morning of 18 February. The port visit was from 18-21 February. Left Hong Kong for Tsingtao, China. The carrier's nickname was "Happy Valley".
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"V" Tailplane Markings
The "V" tail code signifies Carrier Air Group (CVG) 11, which deployed with USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in 1947-48.
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HMS London
Difficult to verify but given the year was 1948, it is likely that the vessel moored alongside the "North Arm" of the Naval Dockyard was HMS London.