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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-204891

Gilberts Operation, November 1943


USS Mississippi (BB-41) fires her forward 14-inch guns, during the bombardment of Makin, 20 November 1943.
Photographed from USS Baltimore (CA-68).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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11 December 2002