Photo #: 80-G-478497 Korean War Minesweeping USS Mockingbird (AMS-27) explodes an enemy mine in the Chinnampo area, off North Korea's Yellow Sea coast. Original photo is dated 3 March 1953. NOTE: This photo has also been published with the ship identified as USS Firecrest (AMS-10). See Cagle and Manson: "The Sea War in Korea", photo spread between pages 108 & 109. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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13 August 1999