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editBombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945 ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945 |
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Description |
English: USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 250 miles north of Tokyo. A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136) . Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |
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Depicted place | Kamaishi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
14 July 1945 date QS:P571,+1945-07-14T00:00:00Z/11 |
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institution QS:P195,Q3250126 |
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Accession number |
80-G-K-6035 |
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Source | https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/indiana-bb-58/80-G-K-6035.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
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JPEG file comment | USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 250 miles north of Tokyo. A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136) . Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |
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