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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-421049

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950.
Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

A color-tinted version of this black & white photograph is available as Photo #: 80-G-K-12603.

 

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9 January 1999