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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97051

"Shore Batteries under Fire"


White phosphorus shells bursting during a bombardment by USS Manchester (CL-83) of enemy artillery emplacements on the Kalma Gak peninsula, near Wonsan, North Korea, circa 4 May 1951.
Photograph was released by Commander, Naval Forces Far East, under date of 4 May 1951.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Note:
The original print is slightly disfigured by horizontal cracking in its lower portion and some emulsion lifting toward the top right center.

 

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19 October 1999