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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 103718
USS Beale (DD-471)
Crewmembers use a fire hose to cool the barrel of the ship's
forward 5"/38 gun.
Note the jumble of empty shell casings near the gun mount.
Possibly taken during Beale's mid-1966 naval gunfire support
operations off Vietnam.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Image posted 17 April 2006