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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-430072

USS Gull (AMS-16)


Sweeping for mines during a commando raid by British Royal Marines at Chinnampo, North Korea. Original photo is dated 15 June 1951.
This operation was intended to cut rail and other enemy supply lines.
Note lookout watching for mines off Gull's bow.

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

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13 August 1999