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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-48412

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Firing the center 16"/50 guns of the forward turrets, during gunnery exercises.
Photo is dated 1 December 1944, but was probably taken during the ship's shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.

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

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11 January 1999