Photo #: 80-G-244214 USS Arkansas (BB-33) Chalked inscription on the crown of the battleship's Turret Two: "You name it Boss, We'll hit it." Photographed off the Normandy beachhead on 7 June 1944, the day after the Allies first landed there, assisted by Arkansas's gunfire. Written atop the turret's 12"/50 gun barrels are (left) "Hitler's" and (right) "Downfall". Note: lookouts, with binoculars, by the rangefinder at right; crewmen's working jackets, with hoods; and men limbering up with a medicine ball beside Turret One, in the upper left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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18 December 2003