Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

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

USS Missouri (BB-63), Gunnery-related On Board Views

This page features views on board USS Missouri, showing activities and facilities that supported her gunnery. These include interior views of gun turrets and fire control spaces, guns preparing to fire, ammunition handling and recording of gunfire action.

For additional views of Missouri Gunfire and Gunnery, see: USS Missouri, Gunfire and Gunnery, 1944; and
USS Missouri, Gunfire and Gunnery after 1945.

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-K-4558 (Color)

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Fire Controlman First Class E.M. Smith, Gun Captain of one of the ship's nine 16"/50 Mk.VII main battery guns, opens his gun's breech plug, during Missouri's shakedown cruise, August 1944.
The gun's polished steel breech is marked with the stamp of its manufacturer, the Naval Gun Factory, Washington Navy Yard, DC.
Note tattoo on FC1c Smith's left forearm.

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

Online Image: 75KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-4538 (Color)

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Commander Jacob E. Cooper, the ship's Executive Officer, passes an order to his talker, Seaman Second Class Vincent Domino, in the primary conning station, part-way up the forward fire control tower.
Photographed during gunnery exercises on Missouri's shakedown cruise, August 1944.
Note the battleship's forward 16"/50 gun turrets trained out to port below; binnacle and other instruments in the conning station.

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

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 80-G-421187

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Chief Gunner's Mate W.L. Stull (left) and Ensign R.H. Sprince relay an order to load all guns of turret one, during bombardment operations off Korea, October 1950.

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

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 80-G-420319

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Scene in the ship's main battery plotting room, during operations off Korea, 17 September 1950.

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

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 96782

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Forward turret trains to port, as the battleship moves into firing position off Kansong, Korea.
Photo is dated 5 February 1951.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96783

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Photographer's Mate J.C. McGraw uses a motion picture camera to record the effects of coastal bombardment by Missouri, while she was operating off Korea circa November-December 1952.
Photo was released by Department of Defense on 8 December 1952.
Note talker's helmets and other communications gear worn by the other two sailors, and life jackets worn by all three.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
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.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 

For additional views of Missouri Gunfire and Gunnery, see: USS Missouri, Gunfire and Gunnery, 1944; and
USS Missouri, Gunfire and Gunnery after 1945.

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."


Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

13 January 1999