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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-367853

Invasion of Southern France, August 1944


USS Quincy (CA-71) fires her forward 8"/55 guns off Toulon, France, while supporting the invasion, 16 August 1944.
Note smoke screen laid by the ship next ahead to prevent accurate counter-fire by German coastal artillery.

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

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7 November 2000