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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96784

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Crewmen load 16-inch projectiles aboard Missouri in preparation for further Korean War bombardment operations. Photographed at a base in Japan, circa February 1951.
Photo is dated 14 February 1951, a day when Missouri was at Inchon, Korea.
Note shell carts, used to move the projectiles on the battleship's upper deck.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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12 January 1999