On his way to fight in the korean war, Navy Reserve Lieutenant Joe Sanko confessed his fear to his older brother: 'To date we haven't lost a single life," he wrote, "[but] we are going to lose some and perhaps quite a few." Sanko's letter, written on November 23,1951, anticipated the arrival of the aircraft carrier Valley Forge in the Sea of Japan to join Task Force 77, the main striking force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet.
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