USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) underway at sea, circa in 1948 (80-G-706709)

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) exercising at sea with another carrier and a Fargo-class light cruiser, circa 1948. The photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 10 January 1949. Note the "E" painted on her stack, the location of hull number below the after end of her island and the Sikorsky HO3S helicopter on her flight deck.