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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Missouri (BB-63), Gunfire and Gunnery after 1945

This page features views of USS Missouri's guns in action following World War II, including peacetime training shoots and Korean War bombardment.

For additional views of Missouri Gunfire and Gunnery, see: USS Missouri, Gunfire and Gunnery, 1944; and
USS Missouri, Gunnery-related On Board Views.

For links to further picture coverage on USS Missouri, see the ship's cover page: USS Missouri, Selected Views.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: 80-G-706922

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Firing her main battery at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, during Caribbean amphibious maneuvers, circa March 1949.
Note floatplanes on the ship's catapults. Planes and catapults were removed in May 1949.
USS Pocono (AGC-16) is in the right background.

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

Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 615 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-12603 (Color)

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950.
Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border.

This is a color-tinted version of a black & white original. The original photograph is Photo #: 80-G-421049.

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

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-421049

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950.
Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

A color-tinted version of this black & white photograph is available as Photo #: 80-G-K-12603.

 
Photo #: NH 96811

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Forward turret fires a 16-inch shell at enemy forces attacking Hungnam, North Korea, during a night bombardment in December 1950. In the background, LSMRs are firing rockets, with both ends of the trajectory visible.
This is a composite image, made with two negatives taken only a few minutes apart.
Photograph is dated 28 December 1950, but was probably taken on 23-24 December.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 645 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-426954

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a three-gun salvo from her number two turret at a Korean Target, circa February 1951.
Note U.S. flag and the ship's hull number used as identification markings on the forward turret.

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

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 615 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-426474

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a salvo from her forward turrets, during bombardment operations off Korea in February 1951.

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

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 80-G-426473

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Crewmen of starboard midships 40mm quad gun mounts stand by as the after 16"/50 gun turret fires a salvo at enemy forces at Kansong, Korea, in February 1951.
Photographed from the forward fire control tower.

Online Image: 89KB; 595 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 96814-KN (Color)

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a fifteen-gun (nine 16-inch and six 5-inch) broadside, during maneuvers in the Hawaiian Operations Area, circa July-August 1987.
Letterpress reproduction of a photograph by PH1 Terry A. Cosgrove.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96786

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fires a 16-inch projectile from turret one during gunnery exercises in 1987.
Photographed by PH1 Terry A. Cosgrove.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 

For additional views of Missouri Gunfire and Gunnery, see: USS Missouri, Gunfire and Gunnery, 1944; and
USS Missouri, Gunnery-related On Board Views.

For links to further picture coverage on USS Missouri, see the ship's cover page: USS Missouri, Selected Views.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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New image added 19 May 1999